Subject: English

Unit: 13 - Strange Happenings

Topic: Headings in the News

Level: Primary 3

Duration: 2 periods (1 hour)

1. Students are able to identify headings in newspapers/magazines.

2. Students are able to match correct headings to stories.

3. Students understand that headings summarise their stories.

4. Students are familiar in navigating in Creative Writer.

Specific Instructional Objectives:

Students would be able to write suitable stories to suitable suggested headings of

their choice.

Students should be able to organize their details in order of time (when?), place (where?), incident (what?), how it happened (how?) and why it happened (why?).

Describing

Elaborating

Decision Making

Organising

Application

1. Courseware: Creative Writer

• Type : Open Tool

• Characteristics : Allows students to write creatively in various genres. Students can add pictures and sounds to their writings. Students are also able to pick out pre-set stories to write on. User friendly.

2. Newspaper cuttings (see Appendix 1)

3. Pets Textbook pages 66,67 and 71.

1. Full Laboratory with 45 multimedia computers

2. LCD projector

1. Pre-lesson activity. (15 mins)

Students to read through two newspaper articles. To look out for information that tell

you how each heading is suited to each story. Students to discuss thereafter in pairs.

Students are allowed to offer suggestions for better titles.

Students then look out for how the information in each story is organised, in terms

what, when, where, why and how. Students can also refer to the PETS textbook for

further examples.

Students should come to the conclusion (as seen in the SIO).

2. To start on the individual activity. Teacher to demonstrate to students how a

newspaper report can be laid out in the Creative Writer (10 mins) making use of an

example from the PETS textbook.

3. Students are given the following titles to choose from:

1. U.F.O Siting Off Pulau Ubin
2. Monster Under Bed
3. Flying Pig

Teacher to go through each title where students could give suggested story lines.

(5 mins)

4. Students to start on their short individual newspaper reports (around 60 -80

words), paying close attention to how they should organize their details. (30 mins)

5. Conclusion - students to save their work.

Prepared by: Annabelle Koh

Tao Nan School