Starter quiz
- Which of these statements are true?
- A journalistic report can be found in a newspaper, a magazine or online ✓
- A journalistic report is a fiction text
- A journalistic report is always written in columns
- A journalistic report usually focuses on something that happened recently ✓
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- Match the words to their meanings.
- advocate⇔someone who pushes for something to happen ✓
- severity⇔seriousness ✓
- projectile⇔something you throw ✓
- maintain order⇔keep things calm ✓
- Which section of a journalistic report is likely to contain a brief summary of the event that has happened?
- introduction ✓
- main paragraphs
- conclusion
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- Which of these sentences are not appropriate for a journalistic report?
- We must stop these trees being destroyed at all costs! ✓
- Protestors argue that we must stop the trees being destroyed at all costs.
- Police said that the protest was largely peaceful.
- The police were hopelessly weak in dealing with the protest. ✓
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- Which of the below means 'a quotation to show the exact words someone said'?
- perspective
- fact
- direct speech ✓
- reported speech
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- Why would we include both perspectives and facts in a journalistic report?
- Perspectives are more important than facts
- Perspectives help us understand how different groups feel about an issue ✓
- Facts are much easier to find than perspectives
- We want to know the facts about an event so that we have a clear picture of it ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following linguistic features are common in a journalistic report?
- formal tone ✓
- informal tone
- first person
- third person ✓
- both past and present tense ✓
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- Which is the correct definition of 'reported speech'?
- when we make up what someone said
- when we write the exact words someone said
- when we explain what someone said without using their exact words ✓
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- Which type of punctuation will we always use for direct speech?
- question mark
- exclamation mark
- colon
- inverted commas ✓
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- Tick the examples of reported speech.
- The police spokesperson said that the event was peaceful. ✓
- The event was peaceful.
- "We need to protect these trees!" one protestor explained.
- A protestor explained that the trees needed to be protected. ✓
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- Match the sentence types to the examples.
- compound sentence⇔Objects were thrown, but no-one was hurt. ✓
- adverbial complex sentence⇔Although objects were thrown, no-one was hurt. ✓
- relative complex sentence⇔Projectiles, which were thrown by protestors, caused no injuries. ✓
- Which sentences have the parenthesis correctly punctuated?
- The protest (outside City Hall) was relatively peaceful. ✓
- O'Keefe a, local professor, added her voice to the protestors' concerns.
- The (protest outside City Hall) was relatively peaceful.
- O'Keefe, a local professor, added her voice to the protestors' concerns. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A journalistic report contains factual statements mixed with different individuals' perspectives.
- It has a formal tone and it is written in the third person, using both past and present tense.
- When we give individuals' perspectives, we can use direct speech or reported speech.
- Direct speech uses inverted commas to say the exact words a person said; reported speech does not.
- A journalistic report contains a range of cohesive devices used to connect ideas together.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to punctuate direct speech correctly.
Visual prompts for punctuating different types of direct speech can be found in our KS2 Grammar curriculum.
Keywords
Formal tone - the effect created by using serious, factual language
Direct speech - when the exact words spoken by someone are written down, usually enclosed in inverted commas to indicate speech
Reported speech - when we write what someone said without using the exact words they spoke and without using inverted commas
Inverted commas - punctuation marks used to indicate the beginning and end of direct speech or a quotation
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
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