Much Ado

About Nothing

Year 8

Week 3, Lesson 1

Lesson objective

By the end of the lesson you will know:

What information is needed in a newspaper

article.

How to plan to write a newspaper article.

How to write a good newspaper headline.

What will you include?

Headlines…

Introduce the main story

Grab the reader’s attention

Shock or surprise

Make you want to read the whole article

What makes a good headline?

It all depends on the type of paper!

Tabloid and broadsheet newspapers will

present their headlines in different ways

They have a different target audience

The stories they cover are quite different

Broadsheet Headlines

Usually quite straightforward

Longer, fuller sentences; more sophisticated

language

Always about serious ‘hard’ news

Headlines try to be concise but informative

Tabloid Headlines Very short and snappy Sometimes use puns (play on words) or

alliteration to grab readers’ attention Use shocking headlines to instantly draw the

reader in Quite often humorous, especially if an

entertainment story Often related to the picture, but they let the

picture speak for itself Opinionated when it comes to real news

stories

Tabloid or Broadsheet?

Government backs radical plan to stop

Muslim extremism

Broadsheet

Tabloid or Broadsheet?

Alien backs Clinton!

Tabloid

Tabloid or Broadsheet?

Gord help us now!

Tabloid

Tabloid or Broadsheet?

Doubts over value of £3 billion Sure

Start

Broadsheet

Tabloid or Broadsheet?

Kicked in the ballots

Tabloid

Task

Work with a partner to discuss your

newspaper article

See if you can come up with two headlines:

one for a broadsheet paper and one for a

tabloid

Write your headlines your exercise book

Plenary Headline

competition…

Broadsheet:

Tabloid:

Much Ado

About Nothing

Year 8

Week 3, Lesson 2

Headline comp

Your assessment

Today you will write your newspaper article.

This is an assessment. I cannot help you –but you can use all of the notes that we have made so far in your exercise book.

You must work independently and in silence.

You can listen to music if you have headphones.

Start writing. You will have 10-

minutes before the end of lesson

to check over your work.

Plenary – checking over your

work

Have you used a catchy headline?

Have you answered the who, what, where, when

and why questions?

Have you included some quotes? Have you used

quotation marks?

Have you used capital letters at the beginning of

sentences and for names?

Have you used paragraphs to structure your

writing?

Much Ado

About Nothing

Year 8

Week 3, Lesson 3

Learning objective

You will know how to use a criteria to assess

your partner’s work and give them positive

and constructive feedback.

Starter

You have 10 minutes to log in, find a suitable

picture for your article and print it off.

Make sure that your picture will fit on to your

newspaper page.

You will need to add a caption that explains

the picture and makes your audience want to

read the article.

Peer assessment

You will use the criteria to assess your partner’s newspaper article.

You will then give your partner feedback using the feedback form.

You must be positive and constructive in your feedback.

What do I mean by positive and constructive?

DIRT – Dedicated Improvement and

Reflection Time

Once you have your work back – you need to:

1. Read through your partner’s comments

2. Make improvements to your work based on

your partner’s comments.

Plenary

Share some of your articles.