Key Stage 3 Writing: Newspaper Article



How to write a newspaper article

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The Different Types of Newspaper

There are two types: Tabloid and Broadsheet.

|Tabloid |Broadsheet |

|Mix fact and emotion |More fact than emotion. |

|Shorter sentences. |Longer sentences. |

|Use biased and emotional language. |Complicated vocabulary. |

|Stories are mixed together. |Divided into clear sections. |

|May have less news so that there is room for stories about famous |Focus on major world events and politics. |

|people. | |

|Less complex vocabulary. |Generally concerned with events in major cities of the world. |

|Focus on famous people, private lives and scandal. | |

Choose which type of newspaper your news report will appear in.

Headlines

Broadsheet: ‘Dead girl’s father in attack on rail danger'

Tabloid:’ Prayers for families of rail-tragedy girls’

Think of a short and eye catching headline

Your Writing Style and Structure

1. Your first paragraph must contain information about the following: Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?

2. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence at its beginning (a sentence which summarises what the paragraph is about).

3. The news report should be in chronological order.

4. Each paragraph should be linked with a connective.

5. You should include a quotation from someone.

6. Your final paragraphs should be summarising the story and perhaps looking towards the future.

An Example of a Broadsheet News Report

The father of one of the two teenage girls killed by a train at a level crossing called last night for safety improvements to be made to the station where they died.

Chris Bazlinton demanded common-sense measures to stop people running across the track and expressed disappointment at Network Rail’s insistence that the crossing was safe, His daughter Olivia, 14, and her schoolfriend Charlotte Thompson, 13, ran on to the track at Elsenham Station in Essex on Saturday morning to catch a train waiting on the opposite platform.

More fact than emotion.

Longer sentences.

Longer paragraphs

Complicated vocabulary.

Task

Write your own newspaper report about an explosion at a local High school: include a headline, who, what, why, where, when, how, topic sentences, paragraphs, connectives, quotations, layout of a newspaper and written in the style of your chosen type of newspaper.

An Example of a Tabloid News Report

Prayers were said yesterday for the families of two teenage girls killed as they dashed across a level crossing to try to catch a train for a day out Christmas shopping.

The 14 –year – olds apparently ignored warning lights and closed barriers to run for a train that was taking on passengers at the nearby station.

Mix fact and emotion

Shorter sentences.

Use biased and emotional language.

Less complex vocabulary.

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