Wednesday 11th June 2025

LC: To read and analyse a non-fiction transcript.

Task: Create a toolkit for a news report. 

Teacher model: 

neighbourhood cat burglar transcript.pdf

Your turn: using the teacher model and toolkit we have created for the language used in news paper report transcripts analyse the language of the  transcript below and test your toolkit. 

News Report Transcript: Cat "Burglar" on Feline Stealing Frenzy

Reporter: This San Mateo neighbourhood has been burglarised more than six hundred times!

Small boy: He always steals stuff.

Reporter: Neighbours say that all the thefts were by one perpetrator. His name is Dusty. By day, a house cat, by night, a cunning thief. Dusty’s owners, Jean Chu and Jim Coleman say he leaves at night and usually returns with an item or two.  

Jean Chu: Towels, gloves, shoes, socks, a little toy – children’s toys.

Reporter: He even took a pair of shoes, one at a time.  It seems Dusty has a favourite target. I wonder what else he likes to steal?

Small boy:  He took my Mum’s swimming clothes.

Reporter: He’s a sucker for bathing suits drying outside.  A film crew even caught him in the act using night vision, but that didn’t stop his nightly capers. Dusty’s record is eleven items in one night. Neighbours don’t call the police.

Neighbour: No, we haven’t because we know where to go.

Reporter: They just walk over to Dusty’s place to see what the cat dragged in.

Noel Wagner News Associated Press

Language toolkit: 

Exclamation sentence

apostrophes for contraction 

noun phrases

subject specific language 

complex sentence 

questions