Read All About It: Newspaper Articles

This bundle includes resources to support students who are learning to write newspaper articles. The resources and lesson ideas will cover 4 to 6 lessons. Students are introduced to headlines, opening paragraphs, the inverted pyramid structure, who, what, where, when, why and how. The bundle includes knowledge organisers, worksheets (with exemplar answers), a newspaper article exemplar, article planning notes, teacher notes and a possible teaching sequence.
The possible sequence of lessons: reading comprehension on newspapers, research lesson (library or computer suite), headlines, inverted pyramid structure, analysing an article, planning an article, writing an article.
The resources are suitable for KS3, but could also be used with high ability Year 6 students.