This Titanic Recounts and Reports planning pack for KS2 children challenges your Year 5 or Year 6 children to use what they know about the Titanic disaster to explore how different people would have reacted to the disaster. Your class will put themselves in a passenger’s shoes as they write a recount of the character’s experiences aboard the Titanic, as well as investigate how the public may have reacted when they heard the terrible news of the disaster through a newspaper report.

This complete Titanic English series of lessons is packed with enough activity ideas and resources to extend this topic over several sessions to allow your class to really master the genres of writing they will learn about with this ready-to-teach scheme of work. Extended notes are included if you wish to split the lessons over several sessions.

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Descriptive Writing

Use this Titanic Descriptive Writing lesson for KS2 to help your class use descriptive language to write a recount of passengers' first encounters with the Titanic. During this ready-to-teach lesson, your Year 5 or Year 6 children will use descriptive language features to create an effect as they describe the first time their character sees the Titanic and the setting around them.

This packed lesson can be taught in one session or can be extended over several lessons to really give your class the chance to explore, draft and edit their writing further. Either way, your class will be creating fantastic Titanic descriptive writing in no time!

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Suspense and Action

Explore how authors use different writing devices and structures to build up to and create tension and suspense in their writing. Discuss different model texts with your class as they pick out devices and skills to use in their own writing of the next part of their recount. Why not try extending this lesson over a few more sessions to give your class the opportunity to really get to grips with each of the writing devices for this chapter?

A lesson plan, slideshow presentation and range of printable resources are included in this lesson pack.

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Changing Moods

Challenge your class to use their learning from the previous two lessons to create a switch in moods as events unfold in the final chapter of their recounts. Discuss how the sentence structure and word choices can help the children as authors create a mood for their readers which matches the events happening to their character as they are rescued from the Titanic disaster.

This lesson pack comes complete with everything you need to deliver the learning, including an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input and a range of printable resources for adaptive learning.

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Titanic News Report

In this Titanic News Report KS2 English lesson, your Year 5 or Year 6 children will explore how people all over the world found out about the Titanic disaster, and discuss how news reports convey important information. They will then be given the chance to analyse a televised news report in order to start planning and writing their own script for a Titanic news report, as if the technology were available at this time.

This ready-to-teach Titanic News Report lesson provides everything you need to challenge your class to create their own televised Titanic news reports, including a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources to support your children as they write their scripts.

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Recording a News Report

Put your class’s plans into action as they record their Titanic news broadcast as a either a televised or radio news report. Challenge them to think about the key differences in these two mediums and think about how to make the filming and editing process more efficient using a shot list. This lesson could be extended over several sessions to give your class the opportunity to really get to grips with filming and editing video or sound recordings.

This fun lesson contains everything you need, including a lesson plan, slideshow and printable resources.

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Titanic Newspaper Report

Download this ready-to-teach Titanic Newspaper Report KS2 English lesson to challenge your Year 5 or Year 6 class to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different news mediums, before converting a script for a televised news report into a written Titanic newspaper report.

During the teaching input (using the included slideshow to guide you and your class through the learning), your children will discuss how the differences in the audience and medium of a report can change the way it is written, as well as explore the features of a newspaper report.

Your class are then challenged to write their own Titanic newspaper reports, drawing on everything they have learnt. You can do this over one session or extend it out across several sessions to give children more time to get stuck into their reports.

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