Learning Experience 12
Description
This learning experience focus has two phases the planning phase and writing phase. In the first phase students will learn how to construct interview questions to get the most amount of relevant information possible and then begin to plan a newspaper article to go into the school newspaper. This activity is a practise before the summative assessment piece. Students need to apply all the knowledge learnt throughout the unit and incorporate it into the development of the newspaper article plan before creating the article in the next lesson.
Duration
1 hour
Curriculum
ACARA
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
QCAA Literacy Indicators
WC 5
ii. Write and create learning area texts, demonstrating increasing control and using modelled structures to organise information
iii. Plan, draft and publish texts using strategies
iv. Write paragraphs that maintain the pace or sense of texts, and organise texts using structures
Resources
This learning experience focus has two phases the planning phase and writing phase. In the first phase students will learn how to construct interview questions to get the most amount of relevant information possible and then begin to plan a newspaper article to go into the school newspaper. This activity is a practise before the summative assessment piece. Students need to apply all the knowledge learnt throughout the unit and incorporate it into the development of the newspaper article plan before creating the article in the next lesson.
Duration
1 hour
Curriculum
ACARA
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
QCAA Literacy Indicators
WC 5
ii. Write and create learning area texts, demonstrating increasing control and using modelled structures to organise information
iii. Plan, draft and publish texts using strategies
iv. Write paragraphs that maintain the pace or sense of texts, and organise texts using structures
Resources
- Ekka newspaper article
- Whiteboard
- Whiteboard markers
- Newspaper plan and template
Newspaper Article Plan | |
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Newspaper Article Template | |
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Lesson Objectives
Learning Experience Overview
- Sponsors
- Spectators
- Players' coach and family
- Create open interview questions for school newspaper
- Complete newspaper article plan using learnt knowledge from previous lessons
Learning Experience Overview
- Read out a newspaper article about the Ekka. Read the headline and all the way until the first quote.
- Ask students what sort of people would the writer interview for this article?
- Would they interview a doctor if the article is about families have fun at the Ekka?
- Would they interview a Mum that had taken her children to the Ekka, or a ride operator?
- What sort of questions would you ask the Mother?
- Would you asked closed questions where they can only answer yes/no or open questions where they can give detailed answers?
- Ask students to give examples.
- Ask students if you were writing a newspaper article about the Australian Open tennis final after it had been played who would you interview for your newspaper article?
- Sponsors
- Spectators
- Players' coach and family
- Now ask what sort of questions would you ask to these people?
- Explain to students over the next 2 lessons they will be constructing their own newspaper article to go in the school newspaper.
- The topic they will be writing about is the school musical Wicked that had it's opening night last night.
- Pose questions regarding learnt knowledge about newspaper writing - Whats needed?
- Now ask students who should be interviewed for this newspaper article? List these on the board.
- Hand out newspaper planning sheet for students to plan their articles model on the whiteboard how to complete the plan giving examples in each section.
- Allow students the remainder of the lesson to complete plan and construct interview questions and begin some research.
- Plans must be checked before the end of the lesson.
- Students will need to take their plans to ask interview questions and return next lesson with both the plan and responses.