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Hello everyone and welcome to lesson eight in our unit about news reports.

In today's lesson, we are going to be using our boxing up from the previous lesson to write the introduction to our news report.

We're going to really hook people in by using the key facts and outlining the case.

Today, I have been craving a really sweet treat and I have a muffin that's in my cupboard that I cannot stop thinking about.

It's chocolatey and it's got little chocolate chunks in, and I cannot wait to tap a nibble on it later.

What's your favourite treat to have when you're feeling like he wants to have something really yummy? For today's lesson, you're going to need something to write on and something to write with and your brain ready to write an amazing introduction that really hooks our reader.

If you do not have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper, pause the video here, go and get it, and then press play when you're ready to begin.

We're going to start off today with a spelling activity and we're going to be recapping another one of our spelling rules from earlier in this term.

We're then going to recap our boxing up plan from the previous lesson and focus mostly on those first two boxes that made up our introduction.

We're then going to write two parts of our introduction.

The first one, where we introduced the reporter and where they are and what news channel they're reporting for, and the second part, the most important part where we introduce the new story and that's where our five Ws are going to come in.

The spelling rule that we're going to recap today is this one.

The /n/ sound can be spelled in different ways at the beginning of words.

Here are three different ways, it can be spelled just with an N like in nose, it can be spelled with a kn like an knee or it can be spelled with a GN liking gnome.

Luckily the majority of words with the /n/ sound at the beginning are spelled with N.

But there are quite a few with KN and GN, and we just basically need to know which ones they are.

So we're going to recap some of those words today to hopefully get them really embedded in our mind so that we know how to spell them next time we need to write them.

We're going to play a game called picture perfect today and it has two parts.

The first part is all about matching relevant pictures to these words, and then afterwards, we're going to be drawing our own pictures to go with them.

The first part says, match the picture to the GN word.

So I have three words that have that /n/ sound spelled GN at the start of them.

Gnome, gnaw and gnat.

I would like you to pause the video, choose which picture matches which GN words and then press play.

When you have done it.

Well done, let's have a look to see if you got the same as me.

The gnat is like a little insect, the gnome like a garden gnome and the gnaw is like to chew on something.

Okay, well done.

Now we're going to do the same activity, but we're going to do it with words beginning with kn with the /n/ sound.

The three words are: knight, know and knee.

I would like you to pause here, choose which picture matches which word and then press play, and we can look at the answers together.

You're so good at this, well done.

So we've got a picture of a knee there.

A whole leg, but it's got a knee on it in the middle.

We've got know which the next one.

So it's about knowing pieces of information, like a jigsaw puzzle in our mind and then finally we have a noble Knight.

Now for the nobel knight, night is actually a homophone, which means there are two words that both sound the same, but it's spelled differently and have different meanings.

The kn knight is a knight, a guard at night who might be part of the fairytale.

The other night is nighttime.

And that /n/ sound is just spelled with an N.

For the final parts of our picture perfect spelling game, you're going to choose one word from each box.

So one from the dark blue GN box, and one from the light green KN box.

You're going to choose one of these words from each box, you're going to draw a picture of it and then underneath, you're going to write a sentence with that word in it.

If you want to challenge yourself and you have enough time, you could do that for all six words, but I am just asking you to do it for one word from each box.

I think the word you should choose is one that you find the trickiest, because hopefully that will help you to remember it.

So pause here, choose your one GN word one KN word, draw a picture for each and write a sentence for each and then press play.

We're going to start today by recapping of boxing up plan for introduction just to make sure that we can remember what to include and why we're doing it.

So we're going to look at the third column two for our purpose as well.

Before we do our writing, it's useful for us to look at our boxing up from a previous lesson.

If you have your boxing up, please make sure that you have it with you while you're writing to help you.

If you don't, we're looking at mine now, so don't worry you can use mine to help you.

So for the piece of writing we're doing today is the introduction, which is going to be these two parts.

The first part which is where we introduce the news reports where they say who they are, they say where they are and they say what news channel they're reporting for.

That's just to introduce the news reporter and hook their viewers in.

The second part of the introduction is to give a concise player summary of the case or the new story.

Of this, we're go to use our five Ws.

We have some news reports or style sentence starters here that can make it more engaging as well.

Witnesses believe, one eye witness states, the number one suspect is.

Those are the only two sections that we're doing today and we'll move on to the rest of our boxing up later on in the unit.

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.

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

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

It's really important as a journalist that you've 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 Ss.

The first of the three Ss 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 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.

Thirdly, spot on.

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

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

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

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

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

If we can remember the five Ws and the three Ss, we're going to have a well-rounded and engaging new support that people are really excited with.

Now, the writing we going to do for the rest of this unit for our whole news report is going to be in a play script style.

The reason it's going to be in a play script style is because this is a piece of writing that is going to be read out loud as a news report.

Therefore it's best that it's really clear who is saying what and when it needs to be said.

So, to do this, instead of using inverted commas around the things that are being said and writing things like set to follow, before something that someone is supposed to say, you put their name and you put a colon.

So if I was going to be the news reporter and I was going to say, hi, Miss Weerasekera, when I write it down, it would write news reporter colon, hi, my name is Miss Weerasekera I'm going to show you quickly what that looks like now by looking at a little piece of my news report.

So, on this news report, you can see that for the part that the reporter is saying, before it starts by pretend reporter and then I've put a code on which is those two dots.

When I changed to a new person speaking.

So in this, it's going to be the interview with Apollo, I start a new line, and now I put Apollo's name and a colon, and then I write what he's going to speak.

So all we need to remember is to put the person's name who's speaking on a colon before they start speaking and to start to new line when someone different talks.

The first part that we're going to write for introduction today is to introduce the reporter.

So that's the first bit in the piece to camera, but we're looking straight down into the lens and with telling everyone who we are, where we are and what news channel we're reporting for.

These are the sentence stems that I'm going to use and you're welcome to use them too.

If you would prefer to change them, that's absolutely fine.

So it says, my name is.

I am coming to you live from.

Reporting for.

I'm going to model my writing now and then afterwards it will be your turn.

Before I actually start writing the introduction, I am going to write that I am in unit 15 and that this is lesson eight.

And my learning objective for today is to write an introduction that hooks.

Now, for the first part, I am going to be doing like, introduce the reporter.

So this is where I'm going to start by saying, my name is.

You might remember that I said earlier that we are going to write this in a play script style.

Now to do that, when the reporter is speaking, I'm going to write reporter here and then I go to do my colon 'cause they are going to be doing that piece to camera.

So I'm going to start by saying, my name is.

Now, I'm going to write, my name is Miss Weerasekera but you're going to do that for yourselves.

So my name is Miss Weerasekera and I reporting to you live from.

Now, you can choose what you want to write here.

We know that that she is going to be, or he, depending on who you are as the reporter is going to be reporting from us.

But you might want to use a little bit of descriptive language, but try and remember that we're trying to be concise and clear with our reporting.

So it's not like when we normally introduce a setting when we really want to paint a picture and use lots of adjectives.

It's more about being direct and clear.

Okay, so I'm going to say, I want you to live from Earth.

Nice and clear no one is going to get confused.

Now I've got to say reporting for, now I'm good to say, Oak Academy News.

Now it's your turn to write your introduction of the news reporter down.

Press pause here and do that and then press play when you've done it.

Fantastic, what a great start to our news report? We're now going to introduce the news story.

So all of this is still part of our introduction and we're moving from introducing the person and where they are to the actual story itself.

This is where our five Ws are going to come in and we're going to try and be concise and clear.

So even though it's a lot of information, we want to make sure that we're sharing it with the viewers quite quickly and clearly.

These are the sentence stems that I'm going to use.

I'm here today to bring you the latest updates on.

The what or where is going to be this sentence.

According to our sources, the when is going to be witnesses believe, the who is going to be, one eyewitness states and the why is going to be the number one suspect is currently.

I'm going to show you mine and then afterwards you will have a go at yours.

We are now moving on to this section of who, where, what, when, why five W section to summarise the story in a concise straightforward way.

We're going to start off with a sentence stem, I'm here today to bring you the latest updates.

So I've got my apostrophe for contraction that used to be I am.

Now it's I'm and I've taken the I away and that's why the apostrophe there.

I'm here today to bring you the latest updates about the mysterious stolen.

Now, for me, I'm going to put harp here 'cause that's my stolen item.

You need to have a think about what your stolen item is going to be here.

Now, instead of mysterious, we could put some other things about the strange, about the unusual.

Have a think about what you think would be a good word to go here.

Remember, we're not being too descriptive.

We want to be clear with our language and simple with our language, but a little bit of description is necessary.

So that's our first sentence.

For our next sentence we're going to start thinking about to what or where this happened.

So, according to our sources, so this feeds the people who have told the news channel about the story.

So they're the sources.

If you ring up and say, I've heard about this new story, you become a source.

So according to our sources, the, me it's going to be harp yours might be something else.

Harp was last seen.

Where do you think it was lost be seen.

Where do you think it was last seen? You might say be it inn a field or in a meadow on earth with Apollo playing music.

You might want to add a little bit of detail about what it was doing as well.

I think that's lovely.

So I'm going to say, according to our sources, the harp was last seen, I like the idea of playing it, I would say famous music here in this field.

Just remember she's there on a.

So you need to have a think about what is your item that's been stolen? What was it doing when it was stolen? And then where was it? So I've been a little bit more specific than I was earlier.

I should have said I'm here Now I'm getting a slightly more detailed in this field on us.

So you might want to give a little bit more detail here in this meadow, wherever you want to put it.

Our next question is going to be when it happened.

So we're going to start it with witnesses believe.

Now, witness is someone who saw something.

So this would have been someone who was there at the time and saw something about what happened in this crime.

Witnesses believe that harp was stolen.

Now you can choose here.

We know it's going to be daytime because if the harp is with Apollo, he's happy and the sun is out, but you can choose what time of day that is.

In the morning, in the afternoon, in the middle of the day.

It's up to you.

So I'm going to say was stolen in the middle of the day.

And we want to give it a reason about why they think it was stolen then.

So it might be because if you wrote in the morning, because they had just woken up, if it was the afternoon, maybe you'd say the sun was starting to go down in the sky.

For me, I'm going to say in the middle of the day because the sun was shining.

Let's put this little bit.

Sorry, I meant to do them right while underline is shining greatly high in the sky.

So we've done our what and where, we've done our when, now we want to think about our who.

So for this, we're going to have one eye witness.

An eye witness is someone who saw not just general facts, but really saw potentially the actual crime itself about to take place or taking place.

So they're really important in a case like this.

One I witnessed states which mean he says that they saw Apollo.

So first we're going to say that Apollo, what was Apollo doing with his item? I'm going to say Apollo was dancing with his harp, but we could say, yeah, because he is singing with his harp.

If you have a different item, think about what he was doing with that item.

So I'm going to say.

I would say Apollo dancing, I'm going to say nearby to his harp.

I was supposed to be an, sorry, nearby to his harp and Hades or what did they see Hades doing? Arriving on his chariot? Lurking nearby, lurking in the bushes hiding behind something? A case about perhaps they saw him about to commit it or perhaps you see them they just picked up, pick Hades picking up the hark, stealing the way or creeping away with the harp.

Completely up to you, what you'd like to do.

I am going to say, Hades watching from behind a tree.

So he's watching, like he's got an intention to go and steal that harp.

Now our final part here is going to be this one, which is the why.

The number one suspect in this case.

Can you remember what we said suspect meant? It's linked to the word suspicious, which means that you think someone has done something.

So a suspect is someone you think has done the crime or has done something wrong.

The number one suspect in this case is Hades because.

Now why might Hades be the number one suspect in this case do you think? What do we know about Hades from our previous units? Or what can we use our imagination to think of that might make him a likely suspect in this case? So it could be because he was seen near by the crime scene, it could be something that he's done before that's bad that's got him in trouble with the police.

What could he have done before this got him in trouble do you think? Perhaps he's stolen something else, so it could be , perhaps he has done something else, he's been horrible to someone.

I'm going to say the number one suspect in this case is Hades because he has been in trouble with the police before the stealing.

Amazing, it's your turn to introduce the new story.

So pause here, use the sentence stems to help you and write your own and then press play when you are ready.

This is a fantastic introduction and I can tell that it's already grabbing the viewers attention.

They know who you are, they engage with you because you're a news reporter and it's in the style of a news report which is really engaging and now they are hooked by the story.

You've given them the main information they need.

I am super impressed by your introduction today and I am certainly hooked already.

It's going to be even better when we perform it at the end of this unit.

If you would like to share your introduction with me, ask a parent or carer to put it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

You can tack Oak national and use the #LearnWithOak.

I hope to see you in our next lesson when we're going to be writing our middle of that builds drama.

And for our use reports, that's going to be our interview with Apollo that is going to be super exciting.