Carrie's War Newspaper Report WAGOLL Pack

Example newspaper report based on the historical fiction novel Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden.

This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying this World War Two evacuation story. The example text reports on the fire at Druid’s Bottom and is ideal to be used after reading the novel.

The model newspaper report comes with two feature identification worksheets for children to fill in, one for layout features and one for language and grammar features, plus answer sheets.

After reading the exemplar text and finding its features, pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text. Pupils’ reports could be about the fire once its cause is discovered, Carrie and Nick’s return to their mother, or even Carrie being re-united with Hepzibah Green and Albert Sandwich.

This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report
• Feature find sheets, x2
• Feature find answers, x2
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2

The features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Byline
• Date
• Introductory paragraph containing the 4 Ws
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Alliteration in the headline
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Fronted adverbials
• Possessive nouns
• Expanded noun phrases
• Prepositional phrases
• Subordinate clauses
• Omission of ‘that’
• Modal verbs
• Passive voice

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