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Newspaper Challenge
Here is a clever way to teach students how to write like a journalist. Each of these six slides gives some information about an event. Learners must take that information and use it as if they are writing a newspaper article about the...
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Ancient History Cyber-Journalists
Learners explore the ancient past. In this ancient civilizations lesson, students research ancient events and write newspaper articles about the events. Learners work in teams of 4 to produce group newspapers that feature their findings....
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Inquiring Minds: News and Philanthropy
Students recognize philanthropy and collect samples from the newspaper or other literary sources. In this newspaper writing lesson, students observe acts of kindness and write about them in a newsletter.
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The Daily Blab
In this language arts worksheet, students are provided a template for which to write a newspaper article. Students complete their own article and provide a picture/illustration to accompany what they have written.
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Breaking News!
In this writing learning exercise, learners choose a historical event from their unit and complete a news report. The report includes who is involves, when it happened, where it happened, what happened, and why it is important.
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Newspaper Writing in Various Genres
In this newspaper writing in various genres worksheet, students create 8 newspaper articles in different genres (list provided), following the examples given, with grading rubric included.
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Let's Write a Newspaper Story
In this let's write a newspaper story learning exercise, students choose a story, explain why they chose this story, then write what they will do to make this a successful newspaper story.
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I Spy Worksheet - Webpage and Newspaper Writing Practice
In this job identification worksheet, students examine several pictures from varying webpages to infer the job detailed in the scene. Then students pretend they are a reporter and write a news article about the job making sure to include...