Year 5 - English
Practising handwriting in journalistic writing
Building handwriting fluency through speed, choices and writing dialogue
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their handwriting speed and their ability to select the apppropriate writing implement suited to a given task. They practise applying their cursive handwriting to writing famous quotations, dialogue, a journalistic report and a non-chronological report.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write sections of a journalistic report, using the correct punctuation, in legible, cursive handwriting.
Key Notes
- Journalistic reports use formal language, are usually written in the third person and will usually include quotes.
- The title of a journalistic report is called the headline. Most words in the headline will start with a capital letter.
- Capital letters are used after inverted commas in speech first and speech second sentences.
- Capital letters are formed separately, they do not join to other letters.
- The letter formation, spacing and cursive joins need to be correct for the writing to be legible.
Vocabulary To Learn
- journalistic report: a non-fiction text that provides information about an event
- headline: attention-grabbing statement at the beginning of an article
- capital letter: the uppercase formation of a letter
- inverted commas: a pair of punctuation marks that signal direct speech to the reader
- legible: text is clear and easy to read and understand
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Children can get confused when writing the headline and start to join the capital letters to the lower case letters.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Journalistic reports use formal language, are usually written in the third person and will usually include quotes. The title of a journalistic report is called the headline. Most words in the headline will start with a capital letter.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'journalistic report'
a non-fiction text that provides information about an event.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Children can get confused when writing the headline and start to join the capital letters to the lower case letters. Correction: Model to the children that you think about the headline before writing it. Which words will have capital letters? When forming the capital letter, exaggerate the action of lifting your pencil after the formation to remind the children.
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