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Dante's Peak Movie Review
Middle or high school volcanologists watch the 1997 film, Dante's Peak. They make observations as they watch and then write a movie review, focusing on what was accurately represented. They also point out what facts were stretched by...
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Bears' House Vandalized, Witnesses Say Blonde Girl Spotted Fleeing from the Scene
Students explore journalism. In this expository writing instructional activity, students read several newspaper articles and note common features. After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett, students work with a partner...
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Don't Mess with Mercury (Lesson A)
Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature. Teach your class this and many more interesting mercury facts by assigning an engaging task. A public relations activity, the exercise informs pupils of the hazards of...
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Incredible Stories: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)
Real or fantasy? Dogzilla, the Giant of Barletta, the Garden of Abdul Gassazi. To enrich their understanding of incredible stories, teams create a mouse newspaper and report on the invasion of Dogzilla, craft folktales, and draft a story...
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The Battle of Antietam
Learners discover the Battle of Antietam is the bloodiest war in American history. They realize that over 20,000 men lost their lives in a single day. Students will write newspaper articles to cover the front page.
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A Day in the Life of a Reporter: Planning, Organizing, Writing
Ninth graders examine how journalists use the writing process to plan, organize, and write news stories. They watch a video, analyze how reporters develop a news story, conduct research, and write a news story.
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Opinion Articles
Students investigate current events. They conduct research on a selected current event, read and analyze opinion pages from different newspapers, and write an article in a newspaper-style column format.
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Writing Headlines
Students define the purpose of headlines and practice writing their own. In this news writing lesson, students define the elements of headlines and view examples. Students read a news story in groups and create a headline for it....
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What's in the News?
In this analysing articles worksheet, students read two newspaper articles about the issue of radon and answer six questions that allow students to reflect on how the articles were written and what is left unknown to the readers.
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It's Happening, Where? Find the Absolute and Relative Location of News Articles
Pupils read newspaper articles. In this social studies instructional activity, students locate the latitude and longitude of the location where the news article takes place. Pupils write a summary of the news article.
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Be the Press: Local Interviews, National News
High school learners research an issue that is important to them and apply the research to write a newspaper article. After thoroughly researching their topic, young scholars strengthen research, analyzation, and writing skills, by...
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School Newspaper
Students investigate writing a school newspaper. In this writing a school newspaper lesson, students choose topics that will be included in the school newspaper. Students view online sites about writing articles and break into groups to...
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Are You For Real?
Students try to find newspaper and magazine articles that are informative or persuasive. They practice determining the differences between the two types of articles. They identify the devices authors use to persuade the audience.
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What's the Scoop on Slang?
Students examine examples of sports jargon by reading sports articles from a newspaper. They write a news article about a fictional sports event using examples of sports jargon.
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Descriptive Writing Lessons
Descriptive writing lessons can lead students on an exploration of how adjectives enhance any written work.
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Reducing the Impact of Drought
Students study the impact of drought and improve their writing skills. For this reducing the impact of drought lesson, students investigate various matters pertaining to drought. They share their findings and build knowledge about ways...
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Islam - Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Hajj Article - Writing Frame
In this writing frame worksheet, students report for a newspaper or magazine about the Islamic journey known as the Hajj. Students are asked to practice writing a headline, explain the Hajj itself, and use appropriate news language and...
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Newspapers
Students create a class newspaper about the Olympics. In this newspaper lesson, students discuss the basic characteristics of each component of the newspaper. Students work in small groups to complete stations on cartoons, headlines,...
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Romeo and Juliet Newspaper
Middle schoolers design a newspaper after reading the play "Romeo and Juliet." They include an appropriate title, wedding announcement, an advice column, an obituary and classified advertisements.
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Language Arts Curriculum Guide
For this language arts worksheet, students complete many worksheets that include brainstorming, newspaper article reviews, TV show descriptions, and more. Students complete 54 worksheets total.
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Found Poems
Students summarize articles found in the newspaper and use key concepts to write a poem. In this reading comprehension and writing lesson plan, students work with a partner to choose a current newspaper article. Key concepts and...
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War in the News
Learners consider the portrayal of war in the news. In this lesson plan on Journalistic perspectives, students will work in groups to critically examine news articles written during war times throughout history.
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Worksheet for Analysis of a Newspaper Article
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions that require them to analyze their selected newspaper articles.
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Writing
Fourth graders review the writing process by using the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They examine a piece of writing for the key elements of composition. They help to make the writing pieces more interesting by correcting...