The Firework-Maker's Daughter: Newspaper Report Example, Feature Find, Activity & Templates

Example newspaper report based on the children’s novel The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman.

This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying The Firework-Maker’s Daughter. The example text reports on the events in chapters 2 and 3 of the book when the elephant escapes from the city.

The model newspaper report comes with a feature find worksheet for children to fill in with answer sheet.

After identifying the features, pupils complete the quotation punctuation activities.

Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text. Pupils’ reports can be about the events in chapters 2 and 3, or a different event from later on in the novel.

This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2

The genre-specific, language, grammar and punctuation features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Alliteration in the headline
• Byline and date
• Lead: introductory paragraph containing the 4 Ws
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Passive voice
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Present perfect tense
• Past perfect tense
• Present perfect continuous
• Past perfect continuous
• Hyphens
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession

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