Crafting Captivating News: Writing Your First Newspaper Article

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Crafting Captivating News: Writing Your First Newspaper Article

Learning objective

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand how to write a newspaper article, including a headline, introduction, body, and conclusion.

What do you already know about writing newspaper articles?

What is a Newspaper Article?

A newspaper article reports on current events. It gives facts and details about a topic that interests readers.

Introduction

Writing Warmup

Write a complex sentence with a relative clause

One of the passengers, who was near the back of the train, commented that she knew who it was who helped to stop the train.

Write a complex sentence with a relative clause

____________, who ___________________, ___________________________________.

Type your relative clause sentence into here

Write a complex sentence with a relative clause

One of the carriages (which was carrying at least 25 passengers) was found suspended in the air by a high strength, sticky substance (later identified as a spider's web).

Write a complex sentence with a relative clause

One of the carriages (_________________) was found _______________________________.

Type your sentence including brackets into here

How to Structure a Newspaper Article

Success Criteria

1. Headline

2. 5Ws

3. Time conjunctions to sequence the events in chronological order

4. Detailed facts (no opinions)

5. Use of brackets for additional information

6. Journalistic sentence starters:

It is believed _____________

It was reported that _____________

1. Direct and indirect speech accurately punctuated

A complex sentence with a relative clause

WAGOLL

Siarad gyda'r partner - Can you find the success criteria in this article?

• Headline

• 5Ws

• Time Conjunctions

• Use of brackets

• Journalistic sentence starters

• Direct/Indirect Speech

• Complex Sentence with relative clause

Identify the features

Spend 15 minutes identifying the features in the articles you have been given.

Write down 3 things you learned about news articles (Not Spiderman!) in this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.