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Thinking sheet · Stories and words
Breaking News!
Be a reporter: write a headline, draw the news photo and answer who, what, where, when and why.
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Stories and words
- Kids practice
- summarizing, who-what-where-when-why, writing headlines
What kids do
“Something big just happened! Report it to the world.”
- Headline:
- News photo
- The facts
How to run it
- News can be real (a class event) or made up (a dinosaur at recess).
- Headlines are short and exciting: practice a few together.
- Read reports aloud like a TV news anchor.
Talk about it
- What makes a headline grab you?
- Which fact is most important?
- How is news writing different from a story?
Take it further
Put the reports together into a class newspaper.
Pairs well with
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