Headline Newspapers use headlines to grab your attention

Headline! Newspapers use headlines to grab your attention. Headlines try to tell the story in as few words as possible; Watery weather washes out Wales! Driverless car ploughs through busy junction!

“Eye witness” Quotations tell us what has been said and who said it. They can help to tell the story by giving the reader the opinions of the people involved. Eg. “They can be rather noisy sometimes but I do miss them, ” wailed Miss Brearey, teacher of Class 3 at Willow Brook Primary School. • “It was the proudest moment of my life!” Mr Castledine reported after building a 3 metre snowman. • “It was easy!” commented times table champion of Class 3, Fraser.

Photographs & Captions Photos and captions help to tell the story by giving readers a snapshot of what happened, where it happened or who it happened to. Photos also need a caption underneath them. A caption is a short sentence explaining what the photograph is showing. Flood waters after the storm reached unsafe levels.

Paragraphs help the reader clearly understand the information on the story. Each new paragraph can sometimes be given a 'subheading'. This is a very short title that tells the reader a little about what the paragraph is will about. However, spacing paragraphs well also has a clear affect. Geoffrey is gone Miss Brearey checked her desk drawer on Monday morning to discover that Geoffrey the giraffe has gone missing…again! Word is he may have broken lockdown rules to visit family on the plains of Africa. His close friend and cousin, Gillian the giraffe, declined to comment on the rumours. Snow Joke! Approximately 5 inches of snow fell on Sunday afternoon and evening leaving the village of Keyworth under a blanket of snow. Before long, snowmen began appearing all around the community. You can never have too many… Teachers at Willow Brook were bowled over today as Mrs Roper made a rather unexpected mistake with her ordering. Instead of ordering 20 biscuit packets for the staff room, 200 appeared this morning! Staff are said to be feeling rather queasy but pleased.