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Unit 1 How the Newspaper Works: Practicing Roles and Skills
Lesson 1 Sections of the Paper
Lesson 2 Who Puts It Together and How?
Lesson 3 Looking Ahead
Lesson 4 Who, What, Where, When, and Why
Lesson 5 Fact or Opinion
Lesson 6 Organization
Lesson 7 The Writing Process
Lesson 8 Prewriting
Lesson 9 Writing the Draft
Lesson 10 Revising
Lesson 11 Editing
Lesson 12 Publishing
Unit 2 A Day in the Life of a Reporter: Planning, Organizing, Writing
Lesson 1 Different Kinds of Stories
Lesson 2 How Do News Stories Come to Be?
Lesson 3 A Reporter’s Writing Process
Lesson 4 Using Context to Define Words
Lesson 5 Planning and Organizing a Story
Lesson 6 Writing the Lead
Lesson 7 Writing Clearly
Lesson 8 Where Do Ideas Come From?
Lesson 9 Identifying Main Ideas
Lesson 10 Identifying Local Issues
Lesson 11 Select an Issue
Lesson 12 Assignment Time
Unit 3 Newspapers in Cyberspace: Journalism’s Digital Future
Lesson 1 Many Sources of Information
Lesson 2 What’s Online?
Lesson 3 Reading Strategies: Skimming, Scanning,
Rereading, Note Taking
Lesson 4 Planning and Conducting an Interview
Lesson 5 Evaluating Developing Stories
Lesson 6 Attributing Information
Lesson 7 Putting It All Together
Unit 4 Let the Pictures Tell the Story: Presenting a Point of View
Lesson 1 Stories with a Purpose
Lesson 2 What’s the Point of a Picture?
Lesson 3 Show, Don’t Tell
Lesson 4 The Feature Article
Lesson 5 The Editorial
Lesson 6 Writing Persuasively
Lesson 7 Using Supporting Information
Lesson 8 Editorial Cartoons
Lesson 9 Choosing Images and Writing Captions
Lesson 10 Go to Press
Reproducibles
Graphic Organizers
Task Cards
Checklists
Correlation to Ninth Grade Proficiency Test Outcomes
Nonfiction Writing and Reading Proficiencies |
