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Framing the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' as a newsworthy event

I can identify the newsworthy elements within the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'.

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Year 4

Framing the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' as a newsworthy event

I can identify the newsworthy elements within the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'.

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Key learning points

  1. Little Red Riding Hood is a traditional tale which has been adapted and retold in different ways.
  2. Journalistic reports provide information about current events and news.
  3. A newsworthy event is something that is interesting or important enough to warrant reporting to the public.
  4. The wolf's actions would be considered a crime and newsworthy.
  5. The wolf would be considered the perpetrator and the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood would be the victims.

Keywords

  • Journalistic report - a non-fiction text that provides information about an event

  • Newsworthy - the quality of being interesting or important enough to warrant reporting to the public

  • Crime - an unlawful act which is punishable by a state or authority

  • Perpetrator - a person who carries out a harmful, illegal or immoral act

  • Victim - a person harmed or injured as a result of a crime, accident or other event

Common misconception

Children may have some confusion around using a fictional tale to inform a non-fiction text.

Go through other examples, from fiction and real-life, that could be used as newsworthy events for newspaper articles.

Teachers can use any visual version of the story and provide images to support the children to sequence and retell the story. You may consider using the popular film 'Hoodwinked', which is age appropriate, as the stimulus for this unit.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Journalistic reports are written by ...
poets.
authors.
Correct answer: journalists.
Q2.
Journalistic reports are what type of text?
fiction
Correct answer: non-fiction
poetry
Q3.
Which of these definitions describes the purpose of a text?
Correct answer: the aim of the text
the person who writes the text
how the text is structured
Q4.
What would you read to find out about real-life, current events?
a book of poetry
a biography
Correct answer: a newspaper
a dictionary
Q5.
Which of these definitions describes the layout of a text?
the aim of the text
the person who writes the text
Correct answer: how the text is structured
Q6.
A fronted adverbial is ...
Correct answer: a sentence starter followed by a comma.
a group of words that always contains a verb.
a describing word for people, places or things.

6 Questions

Q1.
What is the best summary of the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'?
Red visits her grandmother but she isn't there.
Red encounters a wolf in the forest.
Correct answer: Red has to try and save herself and her grandmother from a cunning wolf.
Q2.
What is a journalistic report?
a persuasive text
Correct answer: a non-fiction text that provides information on real-life events
a fiction story
Q3.
What makes an event newsworthy?
if it is funny enough to share with the public
if it is a true story and interesting enough for the public
Correct answer: if it is important or interesting enough to warrant reporting to the public
Q4.
Match the key vocabulary to the correct definition.
Correct Answer:perpetrator,a person who carries out a harmful, illegal or immoral act

a person who carries out a harmful, illegal or immoral act

Correct Answer:crime,an unlawful act which is punishable by a state or authority

an unlawful act which is punishable by a state or authority

Correct Answer:victim,a person harmed/injured as a result of a crime or accident

a person harmed/injured as a result of a crime or accident

Q5.
Which crimes did the wolf commit in 'Little Red Riding Hood'?
stealing
Correct answer: breaking and entering
riding a bike on the pavement
Correct answer: assault (physical attack)
Q6.
Who are the victims in the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'?
the woodsman
the wolf
Correct answer: Red
Correct answer: the grandmother