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Write all about it: newspapers

Teacher Phil Coogan, Brian Gillespie

 

YEAR

NCEA LEVEL

DURATION

11 1 4 weeks

 

Achievement Standard Being Assessed

Achievement Criteria

AS90053 (English 1.2): Produce formal writing
(Formative assessment as this achievement standard is assessed externally)
  • Express idea(s) with supporting detail in a piece of formal writing.
  • Use a writing style appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
  • Structure material in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
  • Use writing conventions without intrusive errors.

Processes

Exploring Language Using appropriate newspaper terminology, describe, discuss, analyse and apply the distinctive conventions, structures and language features of a newspaper.
Thinking Critically Interpret, analyse and produce newspaper articles, discussing their stylistic qualities and explore and identify attitudes and beliefs in terms of personal experience and knowledge of other texts.
Processing Information Using appropriate technologies, retrieve, select and interpret information from a variety of sources, and present accurate and coherent information to inform, entertain and persuade in newspaper articles.

 

Teaching and learning activities

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

guidelines-1 (RTF 7KB)

Learning task 1

Learning task 2

Learning task 3

Links for students

Collaborative online projects:

  • Newsday
    An online project that challenges students to utilise their reading and writing skills while they learn about current local, national and global issues. In the Newsday Project, students will write articles and post them for others to read.They will read and choose articles from other schools to download and include in their own newspaper!

Assessment

assessment (RTF 57KB)

See the Panel Leader's report for this achievement standard.

 

  Assessment Resource Bank Activity relevant to the assessment focus for this unit:
- WL3623 "Rugby Brawl Story "

 

Resources

Electronic

Print

  • Newspapers in Education resources can be ordered from your local NIE.
  • Harrower, Tim. The Newspaper Designer's Handbook, McGraw Hill.

Follow up

Individual students who have been particularly motivated by their work on newspapers and wish to do more or perhaps explore journalism as a career should visit the Journalism Theme Page .

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