Self-editing a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'
I can edit my own journalistic report based on ‘When the Sky Falls’, aiming to improve the punctuation, text cohesion and vocabulary.
Self-editing a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'
I can edit my own journalistic report based on ‘When the Sky Falls’, aiming to improve the punctuation, text cohesion and vocabulary.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Editing is a critical part of the writing process. A growth mindset helps us benefit most from editing.
- Writing is most successful when editing is used to rethink, rephrase and reconsider first ideas.
- Editing is most successful when it is chunked by punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary and cohesive devices.
- We can connect ideas in a range of different ways, using different cohesive devices - there is rarely only one way.
- We use a less formal tone when quoting real people's speech; we use a formal tone elsewhere in our text.
Common misconception
Pupils may have all characters using the same language in direct speech.
Encourage pupils to think about the 'voice' of each character - how might they speak?
Keywords
Growth mindset - a desire to keep developing any skill set
Text cohesion - how a text flows to maintain the interest of the reader and achieve text purpose
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
Formal tone - the effect created by using serious, factual language
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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