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Teacher: Sherae Mcrae Grade: TBD School: Longwood University
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Essential Learning Target(s):
· Students will have developed questioning and predicting skills as well as the following: · Developing receptiveness to language, reading, listening and understanding · Writing, spelling, grammar, drafting, revising and editing · Developing imagination, confidence in using oral language and creative skills · Use of dictionaries and thesauruses to extend and develop vocabulary and spelling · |
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| Subject: Writing
Topic: Newsletter
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Essential Question(s):
•What are the important features of newsletter? •What information should be included? •What are the steps to create a newsletter?
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| Virginia State Standard(s):
Writing: 5.7 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, to explain, and to persuade 5.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing Research: 5.9 The student will find, evaluate, and select appropriate resources for a research product.
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| Lesson Procedures:
•Ask the students to look at newspapers and other newsletters for ideas of layout. •Highlight how the newspaper is structured: e.g. “lead” story, use of full banner headlines, language of headlines, placement of photographs and captions, audience of the newspaper, are the stories interesting, are the stories opinion pieces or factual etc. •Ask the students to create a list of topics around what they wish to write about in their newsletter. •Give the students Reporting Tips (if they are using an interview in their newsletter) •Encourage the students to gather information for their articles and to follow the reporting checklist • Organize the students into groups to create a series of newsletters •Once Newsletter a completed they will be complied into a class magazine. This magazine can then be share with other classes and grades.
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| Materials:
· Paper · Color pencils · Pencils · Comic Template · Samples of Newsletters · Reporting Tips Sheet
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Assessments:
Use completed newsletter to measure writing skills. |
Notes:
Lesson Plan found and modified from:
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