Example Newspaper Report, Toolkit and Editing Targets -(Using Kensuke's Kingdom)

This newspaper example aims to show how Year 5 and 6 writing objectives can be put into a newspaper report. Using Kensuke’s Kingdom as the newspaper report focus. The point where Michael and Stella (the dog) fall off the boat during a storm and the newspaper is written as a way of reporting the boy’s disappearance.

There are two versions of the same article. One is written as a whole page of a newspaper report. The second is partly written with the idea being that you could give the less partial version as a way of getting pupils to edit and improve it.

The resource also comes with a target board with different writing objectives to encourage children to include a variety of different skills.

Finally a toolkit for newspaper report writing in KS2 which contains a self and peer checklist for pupils to check against.