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Recounts: Newspaper Reports

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Year Four

A headline

A byline

An orientation paragraph

Body of the article

Facts and statements

Pictures and captions

Quotations 

Re-orientation 

Third person - formal language

Past tense (mostly)

Coordinating conjunctions - but, so, and, for

Subordinating conjunctions - when, so that, before, until

Adverbs/adverbials of time

Adverbs/adverbs of place

Expanded noun phrases

Apostrophes for possession 

Apostrophes for plural possession 

Year Five

A headline

A byline

An orientation paragraph

Body of the article

Facts and statements

Pictures and captions

Quotations 

Re-orientation 

Third person - formal language

Past tense (mostly)

Subordinating conjunctions - when, so that, before, until, unless

Relative clauses embed extra information 

Conjunctive adverbs to introduce opposite points or results

Adverbs/adverbials of place

Adverbs/adverbials of time

Commas, brackets and dashes for parenthesis
Year Six

A headline

A byline

An orientation paragraph

Body of the article

Facts and statements

Pictures and captions

Quotations 

Re-orientation 

Third person - formal language

Past tense (mostly)

Passive voice

Subjunctive mood/form

Subordinating conjunctions - when, so that, before, until, unless

Relative clauses embed extra information 

Conjunctive adverbs to introduce opposite points or results

Adverbs/adverbials of place

Adverbs/adverbials of time

Semi-colons

Colons

Punctuation for parenthesis 

 

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