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35Lesson #1
Planning the Newspaper
Teacher Background:
Your daily newspaper provides information on many topics in a variety of ways. News
stories tell you what’s happening on local, state, national and international scenes.
Feature stories expand your knowledge of social issues and events. Opinion columns and
editorials provide arguments and debate on controversial topics. Advertising, which is
space paid for by stores and businesses, provides important information about goods and
services available in your area. Newspapers have several objectives: to inform, interpret
and entertain.
Purpose:
Students will
1. identify the purposes of a newspaper
2. define vocabulary related to newspapers
3. discover different kinds of information found in the newspaper
4. name the sections in a newspaper
5. determine the format for the classroom newspaper
Before you start:
Note: Before every newspaper lesson, students should have newspapers to read. They
should be allowed time to browse through their newspapers, to read what they like.
Have students become familiar with the newspaper by going on a newspaper scavenger
hunt.
1. Prepare a list of items students will have to locate in the newspaper, e.g., a
headline, a sale price, a comic strip with children as characters, a sports score,
something to eat.
2. Let students spend 10-15 minutes with their newspapers. Divide them into
groups; give each group a scavenger list and tell each to locate and circle the
scavenger hunt items in their newspaper. The first group to locate all the
items correctly can win a prize.
Learning Activities:
Level 1
1. Give students marking pens and direct them to write on the first page of their
newspapers, labeling the following parts of the page. Explain the terms as
you identify them (see glossary, page 30)
Flag
Dateline
Cutline or caption
News story
Byline
Index
Headline
Photo
2. Divide the students into groups. Have each group discuss the purposes of
newspapers. List ideas on the board.
3. Explore the sections of the newspaper with your students. Help them
categorize the types of ?????
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