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WorksheetsWriting a News Report
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a headline?
Explains where and when something happened.
A sentence that explains what happened.
A catchy title to grab readers' attention.
The name of the person who wrote the article.
What is a byline?
The title of the article.
Contains the name of the place where the story took place.
The secondary heading.
The name of the person who wrote the article.
What is a quotation?
Dialogue that has these symbols " " surrounding it.
It explains 'who', 'what', 'when', 'where'.
Another name for the headline of the article.
Dialogue that has these symbols ' ' surrounding it
What tense is the news report written in?
Present tense; talking about current events happening right now
Past tense; the story already happened
Future tense; the story is going to happen
Grammar isn't important.
What should a lead paragraph explain?
The opinions of eyewitnesses to the story.
How and why the story is being written.
Who, what, when, and where the story happened.
Quotations from the people the story is about.
How many paragraphs should a news report have?
At least 2-3.
At least 4-5.
At least 6-7.
At least 8.
The order of an article is...
Lead paragraph, headline, byline, and body paragraphs.
Headline, placeline, body paragraphs, and lead paragraph.
Headline, byline, placeline, lead paragraph, and body paragraphs.
Headline, summary paragraphs, byline, and lead paragraphy.
What details should we add to a news report?
Add specific names, dates, and times.
Be as general or brief as possible.
Write information that is extra, but not relevant to the story.
Literally write "details" in your article.
Where are news articles found?
On the TV.
On news websites.
On Tik Tok.
In newspapers.
Where does this sentence belong: Learning moving online as COVID crisis continues
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraph
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: Mr Armstrong said, "My students have done an excellent job under these difficult circumstances."
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: One government minister reported, "The problem is many families have more than one child but only one PC or an unstable internet connection"
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: Over the past two months, teachers and students have been adapting to a new type of learning that takes place entirely online.
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: As the crisis continues, we hope the government will allow students to return to school as soon as possible.
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: Technology brings school home
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: We recently interviewed a number of school children about their experiences with online learning.
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: Teachers at Enhance Academy have used Zoom and Class Dojo to help them teach and assign work to students.
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where does this sentence belong: Students found it difficult to focus in online lessons than when they were in class.
Headline
Lead paragraph
Body paragraphs
Summary / ending
Where do quotations come from?
Interviews with people in or near the story.
The writer makes them up.
Taken from other news articles.
They're the same as the headline.
