LESSON 3.3 Writing Your News Article
Curriculum Expectations
Learning Goals: In this lesson, you will
- identify the topic, the audience, the purpose for writing, and the requirements of the particular writing form;
- use pre-writing strategies to generate ideas for writing
- create a first draft that includes the main and supporting ideas in the required form
- Construct clear, coherent, and objective news reports that include relevant facts, information, and supporting details, using the five-questions model – Who? What? Where? When? Why?
- use appropriate strategies to edit written work
Learning Goals: In this lesson, you will
- Use context clues to find the meanings of new words
- learn how to write a simple news article
- Use your knowledge of a news article to provide meaningful feedback to your classmates
- Edit your own writing based on the feedback provided
Activity 3.3.1 The News Report Outline Assignment