Learning Experience 9
Description
This learning experience builds upon the knowledge of newspaper articles and the structure and components they entail. The incorporation of rotational activities gives students a variety of different opportunities to practise new learnt skills and processes.
Duration
1 hour 30 minutes
Broken up into 2 x 45min blocks with a lunch break in-between.
Curriculum
ACARA
Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795)
QCAA Literacy Indicators
VR 5
iv. Independently view and read and demonstrate understanding of learning area texts by synthesising information to link ideas across texts and interpreting, analysing and justifying ideas from literal and inferred ideas and information
Resources
Lesson Objectives
Learning Experience Overview
This learning experience builds upon the knowledge of newspaper articles and the structure and components they entail. The incorporation of rotational activities gives students a variety of different opportunities to practise new learnt skills and processes.
Duration
1 hour 30 minutes
Broken up into 2 x 45min blocks with a lunch break in-between.
Curriculum
ACARA
Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795)
QCAA Literacy Indicators
VR 5
iv. Independently view and read and demonstrate understanding of learning area texts by synthesising information to link ideas across texts and interpreting, analysing and justifying ideas from literal and inferred ideas and information
Resources
- Variety of different newspapers
- Instruction cards
- Class set of iPads
- Class set of headphones
- Glue
- Highlighters
- Class set of 4 cut up newspaper articles in an envelope
- Class set of Fill in the Table activity sheet
- iPad Newspaper Applications - The Australian, The Queensland Times, Sunshine Coast Daily & Herald Sun
- Explain Everything Application
Lesson Objectives
- Understand the structure of newspaper articles
- Identify relevant features of a newspaper article
- Explore a variety of different hard copy and online newspaper articles
Learning Experience Overview
- Review newspaper article powerpoint presentation
- Spilt students into their 5 English rotation groups. These are homogeneous groups based on their current achievement level in English.
- Assign parent helpers to the top three groups, classroom teacher will be assigned to the 2nd lowest group and the literacy support agent will be assigned to the lowest achieving group.
- Over the course of the lesson students will have the opportunity to engage in all five rotation activities.
Rotation Activity 1
Students are to cut and glue newspaper articles from supplied newspapers into their English books and highlight and label the key features found in a newspaper article. The features that need to be identified are:
Rotation Activity 2
In this activity students will be required to work individually to reassemble four newspaper articles that have been cut up into puzzle pieces. Students will have to use their knowledge of newspaper report structure to put each paragraph in the appropriate order along with the headline and other features. Once students are happy with their decision they are to then glue these articles into their English books.
Rotation Activity 3
Students are required to find three newspaper articles on the same or similar topic from different newspapers. These can be found in hardcopy and/or by using the iPad applications. Students are to create a table in their English books to collect the relevant information such as headline, orientation, first sentence, caption etc. Once students have completed this table they can then move onto a three circle venn diagram listing the similarities and differences between the three articles.
Rotation Activity 4
Students are to find a newspaper article from one of the newspaper applications loaded onto the iPad. They are then to screenshot the article and upload it into Explain Everything application. Students are then to record themselves deconstructing the article and labelling the different sections that have been learnt about and the importance of these features.
Explain Everything Application
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.
Students are to cut and glue newspaper articles from supplied newspapers into their English books and highlight and label the key features found in a newspaper article. The features that need to be identified are:
- Headline
- Byline
- Picture (if applicable)
- Caption (if applicable)
- Paragraphs
- Orientation - Who, What, Where, When and Why
- Sequence of importance
- Quotes
- Reported speech
- Details
Rotation Activity 2
In this activity students will be required to work individually to reassemble four newspaper articles that have been cut up into puzzle pieces. Students will have to use their knowledge of newspaper report structure to put each paragraph in the appropriate order along with the headline and other features. Once students are happy with their decision they are to then glue these articles into their English books.
Rotation Activity 3
Students are required to find three newspaper articles on the same or similar topic from different newspapers. These can be found in hardcopy and/or by using the iPad applications. Students are to create a table in their English books to collect the relevant information such as headline, orientation, first sentence, caption etc. Once students have completed this table they can then move onto a three circle venn diagram listing the similarities and differences between the three articles.
Rotation Activity 4
Students are to find a newspaper article from one of the newspaper applications loaded onto the iPad. They are then to screenshot the article and upload it into Explain Everything application. Students are then to record themselves deconstructing the article and labelling the different sections that have been learnt about and the importance of these features.
Explain Everything Application
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.
Differentiation
Parents have been allocated to each group to scaffold learning and keep students on task. The literacy support assistance and classroom teacher have however positioned themselves on the low level English achievement groups to assess what stage they are at and how well they are comprehending the tasks.
The use of multiliteracies has been well incorporated into this lesson with the use of videos, iPad and physical newspapers. Local and state newspaper are an important resource in the classroom, the study can be a stimulus to create articles for a class or school newspaper (Marsh, 2010).
Assessment
As each student is going to individually be recording themselves deconstructing a newspaper article via the Explain Everything iPad application this is a great formative piece of assessment to assess students understanding of the topic thus far. This will be an indication of not only how each student is fairing but also give feedback as to how the unit is going and whether further teaching is required (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010).
Parents have been allocated to each group to scaffold learning and keep students on task. The literacy support assistance and classroom teacher have however positioned themselves on the low level English achievement groups to assess what stage they are at and how well they are comprehending the tasks.
The use of multiliteracies has been well incorporated into this lesson with the use of videos, iPad and physical newspapers. Local and state newspaper are an important resource in the classroom, the study can be a stimulus to create articles for a class or school newspaper (Marsh, 2010).
Assessment
As each student is going to individually be recording themselves deconstructing a newspaper article via the Explain Everything iPad application this is a great formative piece of assessment to assess students understanding of the topic thus far. This will be an indication of not only how each student is fairing but also give feedback as to how the unit is going and whether further teaching is required (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010).