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Alien Invasion News Report Guide

The document provides tips for writing a newspaper report about an alien invasion in one's hometown. It details what to include such as a catchy headline, quotes, answering who, what, where, why, when, how. Keep sentences short and check spelling and facts.

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Alien Invasion News Report Guide

The document provides tips for writing a newspaper report about an alien invasion in one's hometown. It details what to include such as a catchy headline, quotes, answering who, what, where, why, when, how. Keep sentences short and check spelling and facts.

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Alien Invasion Newspaper Report

Amazing Fact
When Orson Welles read a dramatisation of author H.G. Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’ on the radio
in 1938, there were reports of mass panic and terror on the streets of American towns and
cities. The story is about a Martian invasion and the broadcast was deliberately made to sound
like a series of urgent newsflashes.

Challenge
Imagine you are a journalist writing a newspaper article
about an alien invasion in your home town.

Write your news report on the next page.

Top Tips for a Great Newspaper Report

1. Keep your most important information 2. Choose an interesting


near the top of the report. If the event to write about.
report ends up being too long, then
the less important stuff can be
cut out from the bottom of it.

3. Remember to check your 4. Have a short and snappy first


spelling and facts! paragraph that briefly outlines
the topic. If the reader chooses to
only read this paragraph, they
should roughly know the story.

5. Having quotes from sources will 6. Keep your sentences short and
make your report more credible punchy to prevent the reader
and interesting. Why not try from becoming disinterested.
and include an interview?

7. Make sure your headline is amazing 8. Make sure you answer the 6
in order to grab people’s attention. questions: Who? What? Where?
A relevant catchy headline is Why? When? How?
what makes people interested and
wanting to read your report.

You could also try to find out:

• what the broadcast sounded like;


• what some of the headlines in the newspaper said the next day;
• whether there was really as much panic as they said;
• what else Orson Welles and H.G. Wells did.

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