Newspaper Report Writing Unit Years 5 and 6

The first ten lessons explore text type, followed by sentence and word level work. The unit uses differentiated example text types throughout to support students understanding.

**Lesson Order**
– Hook lesson: a school has lost its gravity!
– Analysing newspaper articles.
– Formal vocabulary used in newspapers.
– Relative clauses used in newspapers.
– Parenthesis used in newspapers.
– Rhetorical questions to start and link paragraphs.
– Technical language (explaining gravity).
– Appropriate descriptive language used in newspapers.
– Writing a conclusion, focussing on how the structure is different to other parts of the report.
– Writing the report: writing the introduction.
– Writing the report: writing paragraphs 2 and 3.
– Writing the report: writing paragraph 4 and conclusion.
– Writing the report: editing, with a report for students to practise editing.
– Writing the report: publishing.

All lesson activities are downloaded as PDF files.

Looking for something for lower KS2? Try our newspaper unit aimed at Years 3 and 4.