Nonfiction Chronological reports A newspaper article Week 3
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Non-fiction Chronological reports A newspaper article Week 3 Part 2
The subjunctive is a verb form or mood used to express things that could or should happen. It is used to express wishes, hopes, commands, demands or suggestions
Chunk 1 What advice could we as reporters give our readers to stay safe? Such as: Make sure you lock all doors and windows, even when you are home. Do not go out after dark. Think of 2 pieces of advice and write on your inspiration page. Magpie one of mine if you can only think of 1.
Task 1 • My Turn: It is strongly advised that you do not leave your house unlocked or unattended until the perpetrator has been caught. If you have any relevant information, sightings or know the whereabouts of the criminal contact crime stoppers on 0123 • Your Turn: I have added my advice using a subjunctive verb, used formal language and added information about who to contact. See if you can use these ideas to create your own sentence using a subjunctive verb.
Chunk 2 What actions do the police follow when crime levels are rising? Let think about practical ways the police could help. Write down any ideas you have on your inspiration page, mine are below to help you. • They might have more police officers out patrolling? • They might have more officers out late at night? • They might respond more quickly to 999 burglary calls? • We are going to use our ideas to create text using a colon and bullet points.
Task 2 My turn. Moving forward, the police have released a statement promising the community that the following initiatives will be in place: �Late night patrols �Increased number of officers on the beat. �Fast response to all 999 calls. Your turn: Notice how I have used a fronted adverbial (with a comma), formal language, a colon and then bullet points. Using your ideas and my sentence structure, see if you can create your sentence with all of these features.
Plenary Read through your work to check, edit and improve. Have you remembered all the punctuation including capital letters and full stops in all the right places? So you feel brave enough to read out your work as a news reporter? If you have time you could read out the whole report but remember to practise before you do.
