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Can I write headings and captions?

Hotel offers dogs paw-fect break!

A dog sits on an armchair in a room at France’s first luxury hotel for dogs.

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Can I write headings and captions?

Good headings….

  • Grabs the reader’s attention
  • Use alliteration
  • Play on words
  • Are not too wordy

Good captions…..

  • Include facts
  • Identify the main people or action in the photo
  • Match the tone to the picture

Look through the next few slides at different headings and captions.

Do they achieve the success criteria?

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Can I write headings and captions?

Death by Breath…..almost

9 year old Simon Dodds was after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the breath of a donkey at Chester Zoo

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Can I write headings and captions?

Florida woman calls 911 after McDonald’s runs out of chicken nuggets

Hungry Elisa Tons called the emergency service in a distressed state after being told ‘No more nuggets.’

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‘Burn rubber.’ Schumacher’s regrettable words

51 year old Michael Schumacher was left red faced at the F1 event on Saturday after his car spun out of control.

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Think to yourself, what could the heading and caption be for these 2 images?

Can I write headings and captions?

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Task:

  • Look through the images on Slides 9 & 10
  • Choose 4 or 5
  • Copy them into your Literacy Google slide
  • Write a heading and caption for each image
  • You may work independently or in pairs

Can I write headings and captions?

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Can I write headings and captions?

Success Criteria

Good headings….

  • Grab the reader’s attention
  • Use alliteration
  • Play on words
  • Are not too wordy

Good captions…..

  • Include facts
  • Identify the main people or action in the photo
  • Match the tone to the picture

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