Recounts | Newspaper Reports

Objectives

To read and explore newspaper reports, looking at their key features.

To plan and record main points and ideas before writing.

Resources

Today's Lesson

Spelling

Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. Use Spelling Frame Spelling Tiles and Sorting Segments to learn this week's words.

PRACTISE - Spelling Frame

Main Activity

For the last couple of weeks, you have been working on learning the features of a newspaper report. Today you will begin generating ideas for your own newspaper article based on Harry the hedgehog.

Begin by reminding your student of all the research they have done already on hedgehogs for their information leaflet. Then share the beginning of a story about Harry the Hedgehog (Harry the Hedgehog Story Parts 1 and 2) and read together.

📄 VIEW - Harry the hedgehog Story Parts 1 and 2

Now, you will play a little game to help generate ideas for your newspaper article. Using dice and the Roll the Dice Game, your student will begin by creating a story. The first roll of the die will determine the ‘who’ in the story, the second roll will determine the ‘when’ and so on. For example, if your student rolls a 2 the first time, he or she will be writing about Vinnie. It is okay for this to be a silly story!

📝 PLAY - Roll The Dice Game

Discuss with your student what the newspaper article could be about based on the results of the dice and complete the sheet ‘Results of Roll The Dice Game’. Don’t spend a lot of time on constructing sentences, just make notes at this stage.

📝 REVIEW - Results of Roll The Dice Game

Now, explain that one of you will be hot seating the character that was involved in the event or a bystander. Please watch the 'Hot Seating' video on YouTube to help you understand what Hot Seating is: You may want to wear/hold something to represent this character, such as a hat.

Once you have decided, which character will be hot seated, ask your student to jot down a few questions that they would like to ask this character. Point out that these questions must be open-ended (so, they can’t be answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’), such as: How did you feel when you saw what had happened? What did you do to help the situation? How were you feeling at the time?

Afterwards (or during if possible), jot down anything the character said that could be useful for the newspaper article, such as a quote.

Citations

[1] www.youtube.com [2] www.youtube.com [3] spellingframe.co.uk