traditionally, news-telling involves the children sitting on the mat area and taking turns to share their news.A group of children will tell their news each day so that, by the end of the week,each child has had a turn. However,this can be time-consuming and tedious and other ways of organising news-telling should be considered. For example, children might tell their news to a partner (partner news-telling) or to a small group. It is also worthwhile to get the children to retell someone else's news or to audio record their news as a news report'