Reporters!

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Great Fire of London - NEW LOOK Story of the Great Fire - NEW LOOK

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Objectives

History

To understand ways that we know about the past.
To compose and write a chronological report of the Great Fire of London.

Enquiry question
How might we share our learning about the Great Fire of London?

Outcomes
Children will:

Learn more about the GFoL from a chronological report.
Write a newspaper report, using past tense verbs and other features of report writing.
Edit our own and a friend’s writing, suggesting and making improvements.

Lesson Planning

Provided Resources

Resources

You Will Also Need

Session 2 Timeline Resource
A good quality newspaper

Weblinks

History on the net recount extract used in resources.
For reference: Great Fire of London, very useful website created by the Museum of London.