Creating A Classroom Newspaper Page 27
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35ON ASSIGNMENT…WRITING OPINIONS
Level I
Find a picture in your newspaper. Does it tell a story? Write an editorial describing your
opinion of the pictures and why you think it should or should not be in your newspaper.
(Thinking skills, creative writing)
Collect editorial cartoons. Discuss them with your classmates. Editorial cartoons may be
any size, but they must express the artist’s opinion. Draw an editorial cartoon for your
classroom newspaper about something you wish you could change in your school.
(Social studies, language arts)
Find the editorial page by using the index in the newspaper. Locate, read, and circle
those words that indicate an opinion and those that tell a fact. List the words on a chart in
the correct category. Write an editorial expressing your feelings about the rule that dogs
may not attend school. Use the words you have just learned. Put the editorial in your
classroom newspaper. (Science, language arts)
Level II
Read the headlines of the editorials on the editorial page. Select one editorial to read:
then complete the following sentence: “This editor believes….” Write a letter to the
editor telling if you agree or disagree with the editor. Be sure to say why you feel the
way you do. (Social studies, thinking skills)
Pretend you are the editor of your classroom newspaper. What is of interest to your
friends? Is it the school starting time, school lunches, or snack time? Write an editorial.
Be sure to state the facts and then give your opinion. Write a headline for your editorial
that makes your classmates what to read it. (Social studies, language arts)
Survey your classmates about their favorite comic strip. Collect the information and
chart the results on graph paper. Write an editorial or draw an editorial cartoon about the
results of the survey and how you feel about it. (Math, language arts)
Level III
Write a consumer’s column recommending the best buys for students your age. Use ads
from the newspaper as your sources of information. Make recommendations in several
categories – for example, clothing, records, stereo equipment, sports equipment, cars.
Remember to cite prices in your column and compare the costs of your recommendations
to the costs of similar products you don’t recommend. (Math)
Select an editorial on a controversial issue in your newspaper. Take a “man in the street”
poll of other students, asking their positions on the topic. Write your findings in an
opinion column called Our Students Speak…. (Social studies).
Use the entire sports section of once day’s newspaper to compare coverage of
professional and amateur sports. Count the numbers of stories devoted to each. Measure
the number of inches of space given to each. Write an opinion column about the sports
coverage in the local newspaper. Include your suggestions for changes. (Math, writing)
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