Afshin waqas unit plan Student Id: 110183987

Unit Title: CREATING A NEWSPAPER REPORT

Target genre: Mass-Media text – Newspaper Article
Unit learning objective(s):
 To develop students’ abilities to organise information according to the conventions of newspaper report.
 To independently produce a newspaper article by using language appropriate to the specific context and purpose.

no. of days/weeks: 5 weeks no. of lessons: 15 length of each lesson (mins): 30 minutes
lesson learning activity details feedback / resources technology curriculum links teacher notes
no. objectives assessment requirements (delivery & class
management)
To introduce Video discussion: BBC bitesize video Formative BBC video Internet access En6/3.3 (p. The lesson will
the genre of and subsequent activity assessment bitesize Interactive 37) commence with
news report https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/article demonstrated images of news white board Plan their the engaging
and analyze s/z2gk9qt through reports writing by: video that sets
the field- participation in worksheet on 1.identifying off the topic.
tenor-mode Floor storming: show images of class discussion Field-Tenor- the audience The purpose of
framework different news reports and have a Mode for and the floor
class discussion about register (field- purpose of storming
tenor-mode) of the text -type under the writing, activity is to
study selecting the identify the
build the field

appropriate register (field,

1 form and tenor, mode) of
lesson 1 aricle.jpg the given news
using other
reports.
similar writing
as models for
lesson 1 news report.PNG their own

2.noting and
lesson 1 newspaper aricle.jpg developing
initial ideas,
drawing on
lesson 1 reading and
Norman-Invasion-Newspaper-Article-(1).pdf
research
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where
necessary

To elaborate balanced or biased report class Think-pair-share Worksheets for Same as above Same as above Teacher will
on news discussion Work in pairs to all three read aloud the
reports: Fact or opinion worksheet complete the activities two reports side
discussion Humpty dumpty news report to fact/opinion by side and will
about Bias in highlight point of view sheet and share prompt
2 reporting. the results questions about
the difference in
LESSON 2 lesson 2 fact or reporting the
opinion activity.PDF
BALANCED OR BIASED.doc
same incident.

lesson 2 humpty
dumpty.doc

To explain the Appropriate headline activity Work in pairs to Images Same as above Same as above The teacher will
components The 5 w and H game identify the worksheets focus the
of a news sequence and student’s
3
report and the components of attention to the
order in which lesson 3 5 ws Lesson 3 Headline a news report. order and
game.doc activity sheet.docx
they are sequencing in a
organized. news report.
To Reading aloud and doing the Pact-tom Jumbled text: News report on Same as above Same as above Before the
demonstrate analysis of the news report about the Working in pairs flooding lesson begin,
the application recent flooding in Britain the students will the teacher will
of the reorder a jot down the
conventions of jumbled-up components of
news report in lesson 4 floods news report in news report on
news report.pdf
4 familiar the correct form the white board
model

context and sequence and the

students can
take help during
the reordering
activity.
To develop Sharing the news report on nursery The students Worksheets no Same as above Same as above The idea is to
familiarity rhymes ‘Little Miss Muffet’ will work in nursery rhyme engage the
5
with the pairs and news report. student’s
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conventions of identify the key imagination and
news report features of teach them the
writing. lesson 5 little miss news report in features of
muffet .doc
the two nursery genre by
rhyme articles. focusing on
subject matter
which is familiar
to them.
To learn how The students would be working in Presentation of Plan template Same as above Same as above
to make a groups to complete the activity sheet their work in worksheet
news report which focuses on creating a plan for front of the
plan writing a report based on any nursery class. Peer
6 assessment ad
teacher
lesson 6 news feedback
report plan.doc
rhyme they choose.
To identify the Teacher will explain and give examples Complete Worksheet on Same as above Same as above This lesson will
language of features like Alliteration, Rhyme, worksheet features of be focused on
features of Puns and Letter play while creating explaining the headline the choice of
7 headlines headlines. purpose and words and their
usage of these effectiveness in
language rendering the
lesson 9 language features purpose of the
feature of headline.docx
text.
To identify the The students will be provided with The students Cloze passage Same as above Same as above
deconstruction

elements of cloze passage to fill in with the correct should work sheet
language used form of tense in the news report. demonstrate
in news Use of appropriate punctuation is the
8 reports. highlighted in the previous news understanding
report about flooding in Britain of key language
features in the
news report.
lesson 8 close
passage.docx
studied.
To Creative headlines to the news article Work in Pairs Worksheet Same as above Same as above
demonstrate and images provided. and use the key
9
understanding language
of the form features studied
previously to
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and purpose make headlines
of news article short and
catchy.
Review all that The students will work in pairs and Revise the Quiz worksheet Same as above Same as above
is learned so create short plan on the key features components of
far of newspaper article, mentioning its news report
10
with the help of
a quiz
lesson 10 quiz.doc
purpose and usage
To create a Starting with a headline, the students Students input Same as above Same as above The teacher will
news article and teachers will together write a while scaffold writing
joint construction

about a break news report on the break in incident constructing the the text by
11 in at the answering the 5 W’s and H, keeping in text. asking questions
school. mind the grammatical conventions. and suggesting
corrections.
Continuation Finishing the news report and editing Students would Same as above Same as above The final draft
of the lesson it. be reviewing of the news
11. what has been report would be
created and will given to all the
be encouraged students to be
12 to make used as a
improvement. resource for
independent
construction of
text.
To research Students will work in pairs and brain Same as above Same as above
13 ideas about storm ideas. They can use the internet Library
independent construction

news report for additional research. Internet

resources
To draft a Students will have the template and Same as above Same as above
news report would be writing news reports on the
14 topic of their choice individually

lesson 6 news
report plan.doc

To Final editing and submission of news Summative Same as above Same as above The teacher
15 independently reports. assessment: would mark the
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produce a Student would students work
newspaper be expected to according to the
report. be able to effective use of
produce a all the
newspaper conventions of
article News report
independently article.