Example newspaper report pack based on the popular novel Holes by Louis Sachar.
This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying the mystery adventure bookHoles. The example text reports on Stanley Yelnat’s conviction for theft, from chapters 1 to 6 in the book.
The model newspaper report comes with a feature find worksheet for children to fill in, with answer sheet, to give students the opportunity to examine the text in detail. After identifying the features, pupils complete the quotation punctuation worksheets, filling in the missing punctuation marks.
Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text or other events that take place in the novel.
This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL
• Feature find worksheets, differentiated x 3
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning templates
• Newspaper report writing templates, differentiated x2
• Labelled writing templates
The genre-specific, language, grammar and punctuation features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Alliteration in the headline
• Byline
• Date
• Lead: introductory paragraph containing 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, why)
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Passive voice
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by comma
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Modal verbs
• Present perfect tense (has/have -ed OR has/have been -ed)
• Hyphens
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
All resources come as both easily editable Word documents and PDFs.
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