For 30 years the National Literacy Trust has been empowering people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life, and helping educational professionals to deliver high-quality literacy provision to children and young people.
For 30 years the National Literacy Trust has been empowering people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life, and helping educational professionals to deliver high-quality literacy provision to children and young people.
The National Literacy Trust produced this resource pack with BBC Learning, both to mobilise great writing and to encourage pupils to get involved in Red Nose Day!
Focusing on comedy writing is also a perfect match for the core requirements for teaching English across the UK and helps deliver the key writing skills listed in this pack.
As well as a series of three 60-minute teaching sequences, this resource also contains top tips from comedy industry producers, writers and performers. It focuses on three types of comedy writing:
• Stand-up comedy – the writer performs words that put across their own particular view of the world
• Sketch comedy – the writer turns a funny idea into a scene that people can perform
• Caption comedy – the writer looks at an image and creates a funny line to go with it
Further free resources are available including all of the resources for each lesson, a teacher guide, curriculum links, posters, videos of journalists and further tips for bringing the newsroom to your classroom by visiting the NewsWise webpages.
The NewsWise unit of work is a cross-curricular English and PSHE unit of 16 lessons, covering news literacy through three core themes:
Understanding the news: How and why is news produced?
Critically navigating the news: What is fake news and how can I spot it ? What are the consequences of fake news? How can I distinguish between fact and opinion in the news? How can I identify rumour, speculation and bias in the news?
Reporting news: What does a news report look and sound like? How do I structure a news report? How can I report my own news in a fair, balanced, truthful and interesting way?
As well as our unit of work, you can also download our learning journey, which maps out pupils’ progression through the different NewsWise themes.
The lessons have been created by Literacy specalists, PSHE specialists and journalists, and are closely mapped to the KS2 English curriculum and the PSHE programme of study.
NewsWise is a free, cross-curricular news literacy project for 9 to 11-year-olds across the UK, set up by the Guardian Foundation, National Literacy Trust and PSHE Association and funded by Google. We aim to create a generation of news literate young people. Get involved and register your interest in our projectby visiting the programmes section of the Guardian Foundation website.
The National Literacy Trust produced this resource pack with BBC Learning, both to mobilise great writing.
Focusing on comedy writing is also a perfect match for the core requirements for teaching English across the UK and helps deliver the key writing skills listed in this pack.
As well as a series of three 60-minute teaching sequences, including pupil-facing activities that can be launched directly onto the smartboard or printed for homework and extension, the pack also contains top tips from comedy industry producers, writers and performers to help pupils to write the funniest jokes, sketches and comedy captions.
