Newspaper Reports- Space Theme KS2

This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part.

Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt.

The lessons progress as follows:

Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text
Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports
Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph
Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report
Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph
Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports
Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing

This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.

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