newspaper unit of study
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7/31/2019 Newspaper Unit of Study
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Expository Writing(News Articles)
Overview of Daily Topics
Day 1
What is thepurpose of anewspaper?InquiryInvestigation
Day 2
Introducevocabulary withnewspaperactivity.
Day 3
IdentifyCharacteristicsof a news articleusing organizer.
Day 4
Who are ourreaders?Brainstorm alist of possibletopics.
Day 5
Listing at leastideas for ourtopics. What isimportant in anarticle?
Day 6
Using ourcharacteristic
organizer make aWeekend
Newspaper.
Day 7
Using ourcharacteristic
organizer make aWeekend
Newspaper.
Day 8
Reading andediting our
WeekendNewspaper.
Rubric/checklist
Day 9
Writing a finaldraft of our
WeekendNewspaper for
publication.
Day 10
Writing a finaldraft of our
WeekendNewspaper for
publication.
Day 11
Investigating aprompt for anarticle with agroup of 2 or 3.
Day 12
Finishing theorganizer anddrafting anarticle
individually.
Day 13
Looking at thetemplate andrubric for ourown newspapers.
What will weneed to include?List -
Day 14
Looking back atour expandedbrainstorm liststo choose topics
for our ownnewspaper.
Day 15
Beginning ourarticles. Focuson aninteresting
Headline.Revising andediting as we gothrough eacharticle.
Day 16
Writing articles focusing on theillustration andphoto captions
Revising andediting as we gothrough eacharticle.
Day 17
Writing articles focusing on thesales talkRevising and
editing as we gothrough eacharticle.
Day 18
Writing articles focusing on theinteresting wordsRevising and
editing as we gothrough eacharticle.
Day 19
Publish
Day 20
Publish
***after Day 4 a very good activity is to model writing a newspaper using information that you
got from the interview. Then, give each table group a piece of chart paper and a topic from those
listed. Have them agree on a headline that each student writes 2 sentences to create the article.
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Day 1 What is the purpose of a newspaper? Inquiry Investigation
Materials: Newspapers at each table Post its to write the purpose of the article-Anchor chart made together what are reasons people write?
Connection: What are some reasons we read or write? (Purpose)
Make a chart Authors Purpose to display during the lesson today.
Teach: There are reasons we, as readers, choose to read certain texts. Today, we
are going to look at different articles in the newspaper and figure out why they
were written. When we are working with our groups we can discuss what the cluesin the headlines and pictures help us to understand about the article.
Model a news story on the smart board. Discuss together what the purpose of the
article is. How do you know? Write the type and the proof on a post it. This is what
we will be doing in our groups today.
Link: While you are looking at the newspapers today work with your group to see
how many types of articles there are is there more than one reason for a
newspaper?
Share: Have groups share out at least one article that they labeled and the proof
they wrote on their post it.
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Day 2 Introduce vocabulary with newspaper activity.
Materials: Newspapers Post it notes vocabulary terms on anchor chart for
writing wall.
Connection: Yesterday, we looked at the reason people write articles in newspapers
and why we read them. Today we are going to look at the different parts of a
newspaper. These are important terms that we need to know so we can write a
newspaper.
Make a chart Vocabulary to display during the lesson today.
Teach: Just like there are fiction text features and non fiction text features
there are text features in newspapers. Today we will learn about these so we can
use them in our writing. Description, expository text, news article, text
organization, headline, adjectives, five senses, sensory details, authors personality
(voice), topic, details, writing prompt, writing situation, sentence variety, word
choice, revise, proofread/edit.
Model each term as you define them on the smartboard with the newspaper article
you are displaying.
In groups have students try to locate some of the terms and mark with a post it.
Link: While you are looking in the newspapers look for the terms that we talked
about today.
Share: Have groups share out at least one of the vocabulary words they labeled.
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Day 3Identify Characteristics of a news article using organizer.
Materials: : Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? (Organizer)
Newspapers
Connection: We know that newspapers are written for a reason and that there are
important words for newspapers today we are going to investigate the important
questions that news articles answer.
Teach: In articles we can find certain information who, what, when, where, why,
how Today, we will look through an article with our partner to see if we can find
this information together and record it on our graphic organizer.
Link: Knowing what questions are answered in a news article will help us to writeour own articles.
Share: Have groups share out their articles and organizers.
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Day 4 Who are our readers? Brainstorm a list of possible topics.
Materials: : Audience Graphic organizer, people to interview.
Connection: Weve learned that there are different purposes for news articles.
Today, we are going to talk to people about what they would like to read in our
class newspaper.
Teach: Today, we are going to learn how to do an interview. We will be interviewing
people to find out what they would like to read in our class newspaper. Why is that
important? List answers Who would be good candidates to interview? List
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Model an interview with a student. Model writing answers as they are giving them
to you.
Link: Today we will interview people to find out what types of articles we should
write.
Share: Have groups share out their interviews
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Day 5Listing at least ideas for our topics. What is important in an article?
Materials: Writers Notebook Interview organizer
Connection: Yesterday we interviewed people to find out what they would like to
read in our classroom newspapers.
Teach: Today, we will brainstorm ideas for articles we could write. First, we are
going to talk with our table groups about the ideas that we got from our interviews.
Then, we are going to make a list of ideas we have that we could write about in our
writers notebook. We are going to write the idea and then skip 3 lines after each
one so that we have somewhere to expand on our ideas later.
Model making a list on the smartboard of ideas you could write about.
Link: The ideas we come up with today are the articles we will be writing later. We
need to think about what our interviews taught us and what we know about or can
learn about.
Share: Have everyone share an idea that they came up with.
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Grade 2: A News Article
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
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Audience
What do they want to read?
Directions: Interview someone who would read our class
newspaper. Ask them what they would enjoy reading or what
they would like to learn more about.
Who I interviewed: _______________________________
What would you like to know about our classroom?
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What kinds of things would you enjoy hearing about from our
classroom?
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7/31/2019 Newspaper Unit of Study
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Day 6Using our characteristic organizer make a Weekend Newspaper.
Materials: characteristic organizer / Weekend Newspaper Handout
Connection: We have talked about what we find in newspapers. Today, using the
characteristics of newspapers, we are going to write some news about our weekend.
Teach: Review the characteristics - Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
What are some ideas for topics?
Model making a list on the smart board of ideas you could write about.
Link: As you think about your articles and write your weekend news, think about
your audience. How will you give them the news? What will be a great way to get
your readers attention?
Share: have students share their weekend news with their writing partner before
turning it in.
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Day 7Reading and revising our Weekend Newspaper.
Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/post it notes
Connection: Yesterday, we wrote our weekend news. We met with a partner and
shared it.
Teach: Today we are going to use our rubric and talk with our writing partner to
revise our newspaper. We want to make sure we have lots of good details and
interesting words to make it interesting for our readers.
Model revising a newspaper on the smartboard. Model incorporating details and
descriptive words to make it more interesting.
Link: When we revise we are looking to make our writing more interesting and moreclear. After your partner gives you ideas go back and write your revisions on your
post it notes so you will have your ideas where you need them when we write the
final copy.
Share: Choose 2-3 students who made very clear revisions to share with the class
have a discussion about how these were good revisions and why.
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7/31/2019 Newspaper Unit of Study
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Day 8Reading and editing our Weekend Newspaper.
Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/post it notesConnection: Yesterday, we revised our weekend news. We met with a partner and
shared it.
Teach: Today we are going to use our rubric and talk with our writing partner to
edit our newspaper. We are going to do our 3 step process:
First editing for punctuation
Second editing for capitalization
Third editing for spelling
Model editing a newspaper on the smartboard. Model doing each step separately
with the above colored crayon. Model looking for one area at a time.
Link: Today when we edit we will do our first look for punctuation. Next, we will
check after each sentence where there is punctuation and make sure we have a
capital starting each sentence. Then well look for proper nouns and capitalize them
too. Last well look for words that are not spelled correctly and well use our
personal dictionaries and class dictionaries to spell correctly.
Share: Choose 2-3 students who made good use of their editing time and ask them
to share with the class.
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Day 9 and 10 Writing a final draft of our Weekend Newspaper for publication.
Materials: Rubric/checklist/ Weekend Newspaper Handout/and new copy of
newspaper template for final copy
Connection: Now we have revised and edited our news. We are ready for
publication. When we write our weekend news, its very important to make all of our
changes on our final copy.
Teach: We are going to place our papers side by side and touch each word and
symbol as we rewrite using our corrections. TTW model this process on the smart
board for students so they can see how she checks each word before
writing.checking post its for revision and crayon editing marks as well.
Link: Today, just like I did on the smartboard, we are going to write word by word
and symbol by symbol to make sure that we are making all of our corrections on our
final copy. Dont forget to add all of that detail into your pictures too!
Share: Display newspapers and allow students time to read and enjoy classmates
papers.
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Day 11 Investigating a prompt for an article with a group of 2 or 3.
Materials: List of topics that we brainstormed on chart paper or a smart notebook
page. Chart paper for each group of 2 or 3 students.
Connection: We have written our own weekend news. Now we are going to look at
how writing a newspaper and writing to a prompt are alike.
Teach: Like we wrote our classroom news with a group we are going to take a
topic, narrow it down, and then write an article (paragraph) that has an interesting
topic sentence, at least 3 supporting details that are very descriptive and a closing
sentence. TTW model this using one of the topics.Link: Today, just like I did on the smartboard, we are going to work with our
partners to write our article. When were writing were going to be sure that we
talk about what we should write before we write it since this is a group topic.
Remember, good writers rehearse what theyll write so that they can get all of the
good details included.
Share: Display articles and allow students time to read and enjoy classmates
papers.
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Day 12 Finishing the organizer and drafting an article individually.
Materials: Charts with the articles we wrote using our prompt from yesterday.
Connection: Yesterday, we got some great ideas with our partners about what we
could do to narrow down our topic and support it with details.
Teach: Today, we are going to look at what we wrote with our group yesterday and
we will be creating our own article. We can add on to what was created so were
writing another paragraph with more details or we can rewrite what was written
yesterday in our own way.
Link: TTW demonstrate the way she will rewrite some of the paragraph and alsoadd on using the example from yesterday.
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share with the group how they changed or added
onto their article.
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Day 13 Looking at the template and rubric for our own newspapers. What will we
need to include?
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: We have practiced writing articles with partners and a short
newspaper about our own weekend. Now, we are going to choose some topics to
write in our own newspaper to share with faculty and students at our school and
our families.
Teach: Show the template for the individual newspaper. What are some ideas for
writing in our papers? What kinds of information do you want to include?
Brainstorm topics (ie groundhog day, superbowl, dental health month, weather,what other ideas do we have? Looking at our rubric, what are the things we need
to include to meet the expectations?
Link: TTW give students time to brainstom in their own writers notebooks what
types of articles they need to include to meet the expectations. How many will you
need?
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.
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Day 14 Looking back at our expanded brainstorm lists to choose topics for our own
newspaper.
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: Yesterday we brainstormed our topics for our newspapers. Today we
are going to choose 5 to use.
Teach: As we choose each topic, we will use bullets and list at least 4 different
ideas for each one example: valentines day
*students will bring in valentines
*we will be celebrating it a week early at Boone Trail
*valentines day is a holiday that is celebrated in our country
*the symbol of valentines day is a heart/cupid/ colors you usually see
*lots of people give flowers or chocolate that day
Link: Writing these ideas helps us to narrow down what we will write about in our
article. We want to list as MANY ideas as we can that go with our topic so that our
article will be interesting.
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.
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Day 15 Beginning our articles. Focus on an interesting Headline. Revising and editing
as we go through each article.
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: Today we are going to look through our 5 article ideas and we are going
to choose one to start with.
Teach: Using our valentines day idea TTW write the article quickly getting ideas
down. Leaving out some good details and editing so that we can use this to make
that example in the middle of the writing time.
example: valentines day*students will bring in valentines
*we will be celebrating it a week early at Boone Trail
*valentines day is a holiday that is celebrated in our country
*the symbol of valentines day is a heart/cupid/ colors you usually see
*lots of people give flowers or chocolate that day
Link: Today, we will choose our first article and write it as we have practiced.
way through the writing time model adding in details (to revise) and editing
their paragraph using our 3 color system. Have the code posted so that they can
remember doing it step by step. This is a quick review.
First editing for punctuation
Second editing for capitalization
Third editing for spelling
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share what they wrote as the brainstormed.
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Day 16 Writing articles focusing on the illustration and photo captions. Revising and
editing as we go through each article.
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: Today we are going to look through our 5 article ideas and we are going
to choose another to write.
Teach: What kind of a photo caption could we add to illustrations. Using pictures on
smartboard slide brainstorm photo caption ideas.
Link: continuing to focus on our best writing to interest our readers and catchy
photo captions.Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article)
First editing for punctuation
Second editing for capitalization
Third editing for spelling
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily
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Day 17 Writing articles focusing on the sales talk. Revising and editing as we go
through each article.
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: Today we are going to look at ways to sell something. What are things
we saw being sold in the newspapers we read?
Teach: Each group looks though a newspaper to find things that are for sale. What
will we sell in our newspaper? This is how newspapers pay for their printing
through businesses buying ads.
Link: Using the information from the advertisements we will sell something in ournewspaper.
Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article)
First editing for punctuation
Second editing for capitalization
Third editing for spelling
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily
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Day 17 Writing articles focusing on the interesting words. Revising and editing as we go
through each article.
Materials: Newspaper template for individuals, rubric and writers notebooks.
Connection: Today, we are going to look through and see which word/words we are
using over and over. How can we make our writing more interesting.
Teach: Some words are just overused like: cool, nice, fun, happy.what are some
other words we can find for those words. Introduce the thesaurus as a tool.
Link: We can use the thesaurus to find interesting words for our own writing.
Revise using post it notes. (At least 3 revisions per article)
First editing for punctuation
Second editing for capitalization
Third editing for spelling
Share: Choose 1-4 students to share daily