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Based on clippings files students have been keeping, write a story about a person of their choice. You might like to make it a group activity. Diagrams, graphs or other illustrations can help get a message across. Find an example from the newspaper of a graphic that helps you better understand the information. How does it complement the written story? Find another newspaper story that you think would be easier to understand if it had a graphic to go with it. By yourself or with a partner or group, design the graphic you think the story needs. Ask several people to read it without the graphic and then with the graphic and record their reactions. One of a sub editor’s jobs at a newspaper is to write headlines. With a partner, choose several stories in the newspaper and remove the headlines or obscure them in some way. Take turns reading the stories and writing summary sentences, or headlines. Compare the headlines you write with the original headlines from the newspaper. Which headlines are more effective? Why? Study several stories and their headlines. Now, try the headline removal and writing activity again. Are yours more like the originals this time? |
