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Learning
Quest > New
Things - New Ways News > My Job |
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Introduction | Junior
Journalist | Let’s
Write | Sharing |
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Introduction
You will be investigating how to write
an article. You will have to collect information
for your article and write your own news
story for the ‘New Ways News’.
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Junior
Journalist
 Your mission is to write a news
story on a new physical activity craze
or food craze
that reflects the ‘New Ways News’ main
messages. What is your story going to be
about?
Hint: use a thesaurus (book, online or
function in MS Word) to look up other meanings
of the word, ‘craze’.
eg Yahooligans thesaurus: http://www.yahooligans.com/reference
Brainstorm with a friend, some ideas for your
own story in your New Things Learning Log.
Here’s some ideas to get you thinking …
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New Things … New
Life |
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Ways to get involved |
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No Need to Just Play |
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Include … New Things |
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Skateboards and Bocce |
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Taste Buds |
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Funky Fruit |
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Umpires Alive |
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Good Coach … Great
Coach |
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Yummmmmm! |
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Top Ten New Things for
Aussie kids |
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What’s New? |
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Taste tempters |
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Food for thought |
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Let’s
Write
It is now time to start collecting
information, taking notes of what you have,
or learnt
in the other stages of the Learning Quest.
Talk to people, ask questions, take photos,
find news clippings …
Start your news article by writing a plan.
This plan template may
help you.
What is the main idea(s), issue, what is the
title, are you including quotes, remember to
include important dates, relevant people that
are affected by the article, names of any organisations
mentioned in your research, conclusion (20 – 30
words which clearly states why you wrote this
article, leaving your reader with a strong
sense of the message you want them to get from
your point of view.)
Keep these things in mind:
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Main messages |
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Catchy title/headline |
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What sort of article – lead
(main articles - 250 words), smaller
article (50 – 100 words), an advertisement? |
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Bylines (reporter’s
name printed above his or her story) |
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Images |
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Layout |
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The date, day
and place the article has been written |
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Remember to include
the author’s name |
You may find this website useful on journalistic
jargon …
http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/high/jargon.htm
Also use the ‘Write All About It Newspaper’ website,
which gives student support in traditional
structure of news writing. The main concerns
are with the 5Ws and the H (who did what, when,
where, why and how). Find out more at:
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/paperprod/structure.html
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Sharing
Have you now got a draft article?
You will be swapping your article with two (2) other people to read and review.
Your teacher will help to choose what two articles you will review. Give encouragement
to the junior journalists.
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What do you like about their articles? |
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What could they improve? |
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Are they helping … spread the word about New Ways? |
Once you have reviewed two (2) other articles and you have your article back
with comments from classmates ask yourself:
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Do you want to modify/change your article to improve it? |
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Revisit your article and do a final version ready for publishing |
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