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Year 6

Climate emergency: journalistic report writing

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  • Reading and writing texts that inform

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In this unit, pupils get into role as a journalist attending a climate emergency protest, in prepartion for writing a journalistic report based on the event. In so doing, pupils practise integrating direct speech throughout their report to add credibility to the point of view they are writing from.

This unit uses and builds on writing in the journalistic style from the Year 5 unit, 'The Titanic: journalistic report writing'. Opportunities for wider political, geographical and scientific learning are on offer here; pupils get into role as a journalist attending a climate emergency protest, on which they write from the journalist's perspective. Pupils' reports are written cohesively with a range of sentence structures and speech punctuation is included with quotations. This unit prepares pupils for climate crisis essay writing in the Year 6 unit, 'Polar regions: essay writing'.

  1. Exploring the structure of a journalistic report
  2. Linguistic features of a journalistic report
  3. Making a speech about environmental issues
  4. Investigating a fictional protest in role as a journalist
  5. Planning a journalistic report about a climate protest
  6. Writing the first part of a journalistic report about a climate protest
  7. Writing the second part of a journalistic report about a climate protest
  8. Concluding and editing a journalistic report about a climate protest
  9. Performing a radio broadcast based on a journalistic report
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