Newspapers pt 3

Group Paper

The writing lesson. Hopefully children will have had lots of writing opportunities before this point, writing down their notes and interview tips, brain storming and writing in the classroom during independent activities.

Introduction

Go again through all the children’s notes. You could even make it into a competition, to see who can write the best news paper with the best stories, the most interesting stories. The winning group could have some stickers.

Show children the front cover of popular newspapers. Point out the newspaper name, the headlines and the stories. Look at the different type faces and sizes of print.

Main Lesson

Newspaper Lesson

An Observed Lesson

One of my favourite lessons that I’ve done incorporates a lot of child independent work and a lot of good resources (if I do say so myself!).

Resources for this lesson:

	Blank News Paper Writing Frame Print this out A3 sized and it will be your display final piece of work. Children can stick on photos they take into the boxes and editors can write the stories. Download here.
	Press Badges Each child will have a job and a press badge to go with their job. The badges are all colour coded so that you know which child is in each group. Also helps the children to remember! Download here.
	Interview Sheets These interview sheets are for your lower attainers. The children write the name of the person they are interviewing and then draw a picture of that person. Download here.
	Reporters Sheets These are for your middle and higher attainers. They can write some notes about the news stories they see, ready to report them back to their editors. Download here.
	Newspaper Word Banks For those groups who are working independently in the classroom, children can write their own news stories in the classroom in their child independent time. Download here.
	Blank Stories for Independent For those groups who are working independently in the classroom, children can write their own news stories in the classroom in their child independent time. Download here.

You could also put out some My News templates from Twinkl, turn your Role Play area into a news room for independent work and leave some fine motor skill activities out for the children.

Lesson Plan: