First News is the award-winning weekly newspaper for children. Every week, the specialist First News journalists provide up-to-date, insightful and dynamic articles on a range of subjects from politics to popular culture, from science to citizenship.
From reluctant readers to high achievers, with our resources we make reading exciting, relevant and fun for thousands of pupils across the world. Our reading activities use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom.
First News is the award-winning weekly newspaper for children. Every week, the specialist First News journalists provide up-to-date, insightful and dynamic articles on a range of subjects from politics to popular culture, from science to citizenship.
From reluctant readers to high achievers, with our resources we make reading exciting, relevant and fun for thousands of pupils across the world. Our reading activities use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom.
Help to improve literacy and reading skills with this reading comprehension looking at the origins of Easter and different Easter traditions around the World. Pupils are asked to read an article about Easter and then answer questions on the information they have just learned. This resource includes a detailed sheet of example answers for teachers.
First News comprehensions are excellent for guided reading, SATS preparation, and improving critical literacy in the classroom.
First News reading comprehensions use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom. Each comprehension contains an article taken from First News, the award-winning weekly newspaper for children, and a selection of engaging questions written by education experts.
**This is a First News Level One activity aimed at Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4). Each week, First News creates three levels of literacy activities based on news stories: **
Level One for Lower KS2 (Y3 & Y4)
Level Two for Upper KS2 (Y5 & Y6)
Level Three for KS3
Help to improve literacy and reading skills with this reading comprehension looking at Easter Around the World and other recent news stories. Pupils are asked to read an article about Easter traditions in different cultures and then answer questions on the information they have just learned.
First News comprehensions are excellent for guided reading, SATS preparation, and improving critical literacy in the classroom.
First News reading comprehensions use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom. Each comprehension contains an article taken from First News, the award-winning weekly newspaper for children, and a selection of engaging questions written by education experts.
**This is a First News Level One activity aimed at Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4). Each week, First News creates three levels of literacy activities based on news stories: **
Level One for Lower KS2 (Y3 & Y4)
Level Two for Upper KS2 (Y5 & Y6)
Level Three for KS3
Help to improve literacy and reading skills with this reading comprehension looking at the history and practices of Ramadan. Pupils are asked to read an article about Ramadan and then answer questions on the information they have just learned. There is then a group activity to bring the whole class together at the end of the lesson.
This resource includes a detailed sheet of example answers for teachers.
First News comprehensions are excellent for guided reading, SATS preparation, and improving literacy in the classroom.
Revisit and reflect on the events and news stories of this year with our First News Quiz of 2018.
The quiz is divided into seven sections - UK News, World News, Science, Animals, Arts & Entertainment, Crazy But True and Sport - with eight multiple choice questions in each.
This is an ideal activity for the last week of term, get your pupils into teams and find out who are the news champions of the year.
These relationship lessons will help families cope with daily pressures, and schools deliver teaching on relationships and physical and mental health.
The new teaching pack is being released during Family Action’s 150th anniversary year, which it is marking with a campaign to get people talking about the everyday pressures on families. Family Action’s research shows that relationships and health were two of the top five pressures adults said were common in their close family.
The Family Action Schools’ Pack is designed for use with upper KS2 pupils (Years 5 and 6), but can be used with younger pupils at a school’s discretion. It consists of the following content:
An introductory assembly with accompanying PDF slides (this can be used across KS2)
A follow-up history lesson using original source materials to examine aspects of Victorian family life, and to draw parallels with pressures on family life today
Three follow-up PSHE lessons examining family diversity, exploring family relationships and the pressures that can impact on these, and developing healthy ways in which to manage feelings and behaviour and maintain happy and healthy family relationships
