Year 6 Writing Unit - Newspaper

A fully planned, 2-week unit for writing a newspaper article - WAGOLL uses Batman and Penguin as inspiration. The final outcome is for children to write a newspaper article - we based ours on the novel There May be a Castle but this could be tailored to your classes needs.

Resources include a Smart Notebook file which follows the read as a reader/writer approach to analyse the Newspaper WAGOLL in detail, line by line. The file also includes lesson starters and writing prompts including for direct and reported speech (taking quotes from Prime Ministers Questions during the Windrush debate), parenthesis and correct use of colons/semi-colons.

Also included is a newspaper WAGOLL that was used as our oral text (learning actions and creating a story map), a boxing up activity and a writers toolkit - and everything is editable to match the needs of your class!

This was used with Year 6 but would be ideal for KS2 and KS3. Boys and girls were engaged and this led to some excellent writing outcomes (for something children traditional find difficult to nail) assessed against the writing assessment framework.