Climate emergency: journalistic report writing
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Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A journalistic report informs its reader about an event.
- Journalistic reports are a type of factual recount.
- A headline starts a journalistic report.
- Paragraphs of related content are used for structure.
- Formal language is used.
- Quotes may be integrated.
- Information is presented to the reader clearly and succinctly.
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Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A journalistic report informs its reader about an event.
- Journalistic reports are a type of factual recount.
- A headline starts a journalistic report.
- Paragraphs of related content are used for structure.
- Formal language is used.
- Quotes may be integrated.
- Information is presented to the reader clearly and succinctly.
Reading, writing & oracy
Climate emergency: journalistic report writing
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.
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