Creating News reports

The Grade 4 students have started planning news reports they will create next week.
The students are working in groups of four. Each group will have a Newsreader, Reporters and a Director/ Producer.

We looked at an example of a real news story to see how we should set it up.

News report - Crawling catfish

Crawling catfish - news story example

We will use the information from our news report template, and will plan the report using a storyboard. Students will film and edit on the iPads and use the Green-screen for special effects.

The groups have chosen 4 different topics for their news reports. All stories relate to a true event. All groups chose to base their stories on events at ISPP. 

1. Dust storm at ISPP
2. New student arrives at ISPP
3. Elementary YAPP competition
4. ISPP moves to new campus

Contents,structure and lay-out

The five W’s (Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?) usually in the introduction.

Explanation of terms and names (e.g. Mr Wathana, a teacher at ISPP, ...Phnom Chisor, a temple on the top of an ancient hill,.....)

Factual Evidence

Catchy title in bold big letters (alliteration)

Pictures, graphs, interview footage

Read the most important information first (who, what, where, when)

Reporter says name after interview - “Lyka speaking from ….”

Language

Interview - Expert knowledge/ opinions

Speak clearly and with purpose

Technical words to make it sound at an expert level

Do not use ‘I’ or ‘we’, but ‘they’ or ‘the students’

Past tense when reporting on something (the students went…) and present tense when explaining something (the temple is on the top of a hill)

Neutral words, words that don’t carry a positive or negative meaning (e.g. not ‘really old’, but ‘ancient’)