Over the next week, we will be working on the different parts of our newspaper report. It may be a good idea to leave yourself a couple of pages in your exercise book so that you can keep coming back to it as we add bits over the next few days. Today, we are going to look at coming up with a good headline for our newspapers. First, think about what name you want to call the newspaper that is publishing your article and write it nice and big at the top of your page (your headline will go underneath this).

I would suggest setting your newspaper article out similar to this template.

Name of the newspaper

Headline

Picture

Caption for picture

Writing in columns

What is a headline? What could this be headline be about?

Now, you have the name of your newspaper let’s have a look at a headline.

What makes a good headline?

Headlines should be…

Short

To the point.

Eye-Catching

BIG Bold

Interesting

Puns • A word in a sentence that can have

two meanings. • This word is called a Homophone –

this is a word that sounds the same as another but is spelt differently and has a different meaning

• For example – Write/right, Bare/bear, Flower/flour, Hare/Hair.

Examples

• Peace of cake

• Sew it’s time

• Bare face liars

• Christmas shoppers stocking up

• Witch Halloween costume is for you

Letter play (play on words)

• Sometimes writer will change a letter or a part of the word to give a double meaning.

Examples…

• Truck by lightning

• Tantastic!

• A jab well done.

Alliteration

• Often using the same letter sound at the start of your words can create an interesting effect.

Examples…

• Sending up the stars and stripes.

• Greedy girl gobbles gruel.

• Big bad bear bites boy.

Rhyme

• Green queen, glass with class.

• Hare affair.

• Tissue issue.

Using the features we’ve just looked at practise using them by thinking of a good newspaper headline for these pictures.

Now make a list of as many good headlines as you can for your newspaper article using the features we’ve just looked at.

Once you’ve done that pick your best one and write it in big neat letters underneath the name of your newspaper

at the top of the page!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

Extension: Click on the link below and use the rest of the time to have a read through some online articles. See if you can spot any of the key features of a newspaper article such as, a picture with a caption, headline etc.

If you have time at the end of this lesson spend some time practising your spellings using look, say, cover, write, check or ask someone else to test you on them.

This is the Year 3 and 4 spelling list. Children should be able to spell these by the end of Year 4. You could do your own spelling test with some of these or maybe create a game with them to help you learn them. Your weekly spellings may include some of these.

I will put a set of spellings up each week that you can learn at home. It will have the previous weeks spellings and the next weeks spellings (you only get 5 new ones each week, recapping the 5 from the previous week). Spend about 10 minutes at the beginning/end of every SPAG lesson to learn this weeks spelling using look, say, cover, write and check. If you are able to, ask someone to test you on these spellings at home.

This weeks spellings

dishonest

discontinue

discourage

disrespect

discount

misuse

misplaced

misbehave

mistreated

misspell

New spellings words with the prefix ‘mis’ meaning wrong.