Activity: Your News, Your Views

16 September 2022
Florida NEXT
Activities

Florida State Standards

Strand ELA.612.F: Foundational Skills

Standard 2 ELA 612.F.2: Applying foundational reading skills for secondary

ELA.612.F.2.1: Demonstrate an understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds. a. Orally produce single-syllable and multisyllabic words by accurately blending sounds. b. Accurately segment single-syllable and multisyllabic words.

Strand ELA.12.C: Communication

Standard 4 ELA.12.C.4: Researching

ELA.12.C.4.1: Conduct research on a topical issue to answer a question and synthesize information from a variety of sources.

Strand ELA.12.C: Communication

Standard 5 ELA.12.C.5: Creating and Collaborating

ELA.12.C.5.1: Create, publish, and share multimedia texts through a variety of digital formats.

Teacher needs:

NEXT magazine

Computer

MS Word or MS PowerPoint

Internet access

Printer for classroom use

Printer paper

Poster board

Glue sticks or hot glue guns

Student needs:

NEXT magazine

Computer

MS Word

Internet access

Access to printer

Printer paper

Poster board

Glue sticks or hot glue guns

Teacher Transcript

  1. Teacher: Read the article, “Your News, Your Views” in the NEXT magazine. Do you think that you and your peers can publish a newspaper with articles that are timely and true? Today you will get that chance.
  2. Teacher: Place students in groups of 4. Then display the directions for this activity on the board. As you do that begin explaining the goal and expectations of the task.
  3. Teacher: Your group is considered a newspaper publishing company. Each of you in the group will be a journalist who contributes to the newspaper. Follow the directions on the whiteboard explaining what the goal is and the work you will be required to complete.

    Directions:

    • Brainstorm in your group about topics that are trending today and/or topics of interest to you personally.
    • Come up with a name for the newspaper
    • Each of you should choose one of the topics to research
    • Write a newspaper article – remember to give your article a catchy name
    • Proofread carefully check grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure
    • Print all the articles
    • Using poster board, situate each of the articles (hot glue gun or a glue stick) on the poster board
    • Display the work in the classroom

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