Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Weerasekera.

Welcome to lesson seven in our unit about creating a news report.

In this lesson we're going to be boxing up our news report into its different sections and thinking about the content that goes in each one.

It's going to look much the same as the boxing up we've done before, but we're going to be changing that third column.

So, we're not thinking about the reader's mood but we're thinking about the purpose of each section instead.

Don't worry, I'm going to be walking you through each step anyway.

Today when I woke up, I could remember my dream from last night.

Most of the time when I wake up, I can't remember what I was dreaming about.

Sometimes I get a feeling or an emotion about whether it was a really nice dream or perhaps a bit of a scary dream, but today it was really vivid and it was very strange.

It was actually linked to our story.

Do you often remember your dreams? Can you remember the craziest dream that you've ever had? In today's lesson, you're going to need something to write on as we're going to be making our boxing up table.

You're also going to need something to write with and you're going to need your brain to help me with all of the different parts and all of the things that go inside them.

If you have not got a piece of paper or a pen or pencil, pause the video now and then press play when you've got them and you're ready to get started.

In today's lesson, we're going to start off with a fun oral game called a spoof news.

We are then going to recap the news report features that we've talked about in the previous lesson.

Following that, I'm going to model how I would box up the story into the different columns of the table and then you're going to have a go independently at filling in the table and the other boxes yourself.

We're now going to have a think about the features of our news report.

We're going to split this into two sections.

We're going to think about the features to do with the content of what we write and also the style and how we are going to write it.

Firstly, we're going to think about the five W's.

Now the five W's are, what happened? Who was involved? Where did it happen? When did it happen? And why did it happen? If we follow these questions, we are planning our news report we'll make sure that we include all of the key information that the viewers of our news report will need.

It's really important as a journalist that you cover all of these bases to make sure that it is a well rounded story you are sharing.

You haven't missed out on any key facts.

But as well as our content, we also need to think about the style of a news report, and how we really connect with the viewers or the readers.

For that we're going to think about the three S's.

The first of the three S's is short.

You want a concise news report that gets to the point.

We don't want to include lots of extra unnecessary information or waffle on because we want to make sure that it is clear and easy for people to understand.

Building on from that, we also want to make sure that the language is easy to understand.

There are so many different types of people that might be watching or listening, and we want to make sure that they understand so that the language is simple and clear.

Thirdly, spot-on.

We need to make sure that our punctuation, spelling and grammar is all correct.

Especially, as a news report is often being read out, if grammar and punctuation is incorrect, it can make it difficult to read and we lose the flow of our speech.

We also need to make sure that our facts are correct.

Now, this is a fictional news report, and that means that we've made the facts up.

So, we can't really go and check them.

What we can do is make sure that our facts are sensible and that they all make sense as we flow through our piece, that we're not jumping around from facts that don't connect or don't make sense.

If we can remember the five W's and the three S's, we're going to have a well-rounded and engaging news report that people are really excited to listen.

So, for our oral game today we're going to play a game called spoof news.

And spoof is basically like another word for fake, okay? So we're going to create a fake or a spoof news story about something that's not really newsworthy.

I've got a picture here that's going to be our basis for creating our spoof news story.

And I've given you some sentence stems that I used in my news report to act like I was a news reader.

I'm going to read out those sentence stems for you and then I'm going to show you how I would start to talk about this picture as if it was a new story and then you're going to have your go and to finish off with the rest of the sentence stems. The sentence stem say, my name is.

So I would say, my name is Miss Weerasekera, reporting to you live from, so we're going to think of a location.

I think that looks like a garden.

Reporting to you live from the garden for, I'm going to say Oak Academy news.

You would fill in those bits to match what you would like to say.

I'm here today to bring you the latest updates on a mysterious disappearance of the milk jug.

So I'm going to say that I think that's a milk jug and that it's gone missing.

You can choose to change the story to suit your picture in the way that you want.

Witnesses believe that they last saw the milk jug sitting on the table around lunchtime yesterday.

According to one eyewitness, they saw a furry animal lurking in the bushes nearby, purring and looking straight at the milk jug.

The main suspect in this case is a tabby cat that has been seen around the area and is known for taking food.

If you have any information about the whereabouts of this cat, then please call the police immediately.

Okay, so that was my go at doing it.

You are now going to have your turn and you can use might help you, you can think of different ideas.

You might want it to be a different thing that is stolen.

You might want to choose, you can if you want a different animal that stole it.

It's just to use that news report style, but to do it in a kind of spoof fake way about something we probably wouldn't actually write a news report about.

Pause the video here and have a go at doing your spoof news report and then press play when you're ready to carry on.

That was really fantastic.

You sounded just like a real news reporter.

We are going to be boxing up our news report today.

Now for this, we're going to have the first two columns the same as we have done in previous units.

So in the first, we're going to be using pictures about the main structure and the events in our news report.

In the second, we're going to be writing key words and notes to remind us of what's going on.

But in the third, instead of talking about the reader's mood like we have done before, we're going to be thinking about the purpose of each section.

So what's the purpose of the interview, what's the purpose of the introduction and so on.

I'm going to show you mine now and then you will have a chance to do yours later on in the lesson.

For our boxing up today, I have three columns.

I have my first column where I'm going to draw my pictures to show each section of my news reports.

In my second column, I'm going to do the keywords and notes that tell me what's happening in each section.

And finally, our column that's a little different today, is that we're going to say the purpose of each section.

So why have we got it? What's it going to do for the person reading or listening to this news report, okay? I am going to demonstrate to you the different pictures that go in here and I'm going to help you a little bit more than I usually would with the boxing up today in this purpose column.

And I'm going to leave this column mostly blank for you to fill in during your independent task, okay? Now, for our first picture, we have our introduction.

So in our introduction, in the first bit that we're going to have, we know it is when the reporter is introducing themselves, okay? So for that, I'm going to have little hand 'cause I was saying hello, I'm going to have a microphone.

I'm going to say this is like pin a location, and then it's going to be something news.

Okay, so keywords, I am reporting from for something news, okay? I haven't put in all of the details yet, I'm just thinking of some of the main things I know I'm going to say.

Now the purpose of this one is to introduce news report and reporter, that's kind of our opening.

Now, after that there is still a second part to the introduction.

So, I would say that this is your introduction and this next one is your introduction as well.

So for the next part of your introduction is when we introduce the news report itself.

We think about our five W's here, okay? So for our five W's, we want to have our who, what, where, when, why.

Okay, so our who, we know is going to be Apollo.

What for me is going to be the little harp.

The where is going to be on earth.

The when is going to be in the middle of the day.

And the why eventually, we're going to have our suspect, Tommy of Hades, okay? Now, for this section, some of the different sentence stems that I was using were things like witnesses, believe, one eye witness states the number one suspect is, okay? Now the purpose of this is to give a concise, clear summary of the case.

To inform them and be really clear about what happened, okay? And also to kind of hook them in and engage them in the interesting story.

Now, after that we finished the introduction and we're moving on into our middle and our middle for this news report is going to be the interview section.

So, I'm going to have my interview section and you might remember that I had three questions.

So I'm just going to put that at the top of these three boxes so I remember the three distinct sections.

Okay, so I had question one, and this is where they're going to ask for the detail.

So the detail I said for this one was about the sun disappearing and this big question mark, can he bring it back out? And he saying that he can't do it without his harp.

I'm going to start leaving these space blank now for you to do in your independent task.

But for this, the purpose of this question is to give us some more detail about the case.

It's also building drama, isn't it? We're seeing that this is not something that can just be easily resolved and also seeing that the disappearance of the sun could be really serious.

Okay, now for the next bit, we're going to have a question.

So this is question two which is about the emotion.

So the emotion that he's feeling.

So we know that Apollo is feeling, he gave us a little bit of information, didn't he about feeling happy when he had the harp and then when he doesn't have the harp, he's very sad.

Yeah, then we also know that his emotions he makes that link because of that sun disappears.

Now the point of this is to explain why this harp is important.

Now, remember you can do a harp if you want to too, or if you would like to change this item to a different stolen item, please do that.

I'd be really impressed if you can challenge yourself in that way.

So, explain why this harp is important and bring some emotion to the story.

Rather than just the facts that we had up here, we also want to have a layer of emotion to re-understand and sympathise for Apollo 'cause that's what's going to hook the reader in.

And then our final question in our interview is going to be about the opinion.

So, it's about, the who do you think did it? So we're going to have who and we know he's going to say Hades and he talks about the fact that was stolen by Hades doesn't he? And he also hopes that Zeus will come and make a deal with Hades.

So that's his hope before time runs out.

For this part, it's to add some mystery and suspend some, build more drama.

He's accusing Hades Harris here of the crime but he's also really building up this idea that time's running out.

And then the last few steps in something, everything might die.

It might be really awful.

And then we have our final section which is going to be our conclusion.

And in our conclusion, we know that we had the kind of thumbs down.

Things are looking pretty bad because we've got a bit of a summary.

So you've got the five W's again, then we've got the call to action.

So we had call with the police.

So the point of the conclusion is to recap and summarise the story, inform about what's happening next or inform of your about what might happen next.

And then finally, it's a call to action.

So that means that you're asking the people listening or viewing from home, ask them to do something and our call to action here is them to call the police if they know anything, okay? So I have my different sections.

These two for my introduction.

The introduction is the reporter introducing themselves and where they are in the news.

Then introducing the new stories in the five W's then it moves into the middle which is the interview question one which is about the details.

Can he bring back the sun? Question two is about the emotion.

So why is the harp so important? How are you feeling that now it's been vanished.

And then question three is the who and the opinion.

So who do you think did it.

And Apollo is telling us that he thinks Hades did it because he steal for Stephany, and he's building drama 'cause he's saying time's running out.

I need Zeus to come and help me make a deal.

And then finally we have our conclusion, but we have a bit of a summary about how things are looking quite bad using the five W's again.

And then finally a call to action asking people to call the police if they've seen anything.

So your job soon is going to be to carry on with like these sentence stems and notes about what's happening in each of these just to remind yourselves.

And then in the purpose, we've got to introduce the news reporter to give a clear concise summary of the case and hook that viewers in.

To give a bit more detail here and to build drama, to explain why the harp is so important and to add some emotion so that the viewers have some sympathy for Apollo, to add in some mystery and also to build drama here about the idea that it might too late soon.

And then finally, we recap and summarise in our conclusion to inform them about what might happen next.

And also as a call to action for the viewer of the new story, asking them to do something.

Now that you have seen me fill in my boxing up table, it's time for you to have a go.

So remember, put the key notes and words in the second column and a purpose for each section in the third column.

Press pause here and finish off your boxing up and then press play when you are finished.

Fantastic, that's a really detailed boxing up of our news report and that's going to make it much easier as we go through the rest of the week and we're able to write up the different parts.

I would really love to see your boxing out today.

If you would like to share it with me, please ask a parent or carer to put it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and tag Oak National and use the #LearnwithOak.

In our next lesson, we're going to be writing the introduction to our news report.

That's really going to hook those that are watching the news into it.

So it's really important and it's also really exciting.

I hope to see you in the next lesson.