Writing Newspaper Articles Year 2
Here s how you can tell the difference between a news story and a feature story.
Writing newspaper articles year 2. Ask children to highlight and label the texts to pick. Write in the third person he. Include a short and snappy headline title.
When you are writing a newspaper report you should. This was day 1 of designing their own newspaper articles. Write above the fold.
Newspaper reports can be taught within the non fiction genre of texts that children are required to read as part of the ks2 national curriculum. The three newspaper report examples in this pack could be read with your children to gage their knowledge of the features of a newspaper report at the beginning of their learning and at the end. There are 2 layout formats 1 is more scaffolded and 1 leaves more freedom which they filled in by hand.
The fold comes from newspapers where there s a crease because the page gets folded in half. On day 2 we worked on using an online template and typing up their articles inserting photos using the online thesaurus ect. When writing a news article you should focus on giving your readers what they want as soon as possible.
But this lesson deals strictly with news and feature articles. You will also find opinion pieces like editorials and book and movie reviews.