Reading A Newspaper

You Will:

• -- Learn the main parts of a newspaper.

HEADLINE – BYLINE – CAPTION

BACKPAGE – FRONT PAGE

COLUMN - COLUMNIST

FILLER –– BOX

OBITUARY – COMIC STRIP –JUMP

OTHER USEFUL VOCAB

• EDITOR – EDITION

• BROADSHEET - TABLOID

ASSIGNMENT

1.- ASSIGNMENT

• Find a newspaper and circle or highlight with a marker as many parts as you can from the vocab we have studied.

• It can be a Spanish newspaper but you must write the vocabulary words in English.

• Due for Friday, 10th. May

2.- ASSIGNMENT

• -- Read the beginning of a news story and underline, circle or highlight the five Ws:

WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? -- See how a news story is built answering the 5 W's.

Due for Monday 13th. May.

3.- ASSIGNMENT

• -- Use notes to answer the 5 W's and write a short article about some news from school as if it were for a newspaper (headline, byline, lead…).The news can be real or imaginary.

• Due for May 17th.

SOME VOCAB• advertisement (ad): A message printed in the

newspaper in space paid for by the advertiser.• byline: Line located under headline which tells

the name of the writer.• caption: Lines under a photograph which

explain what the picture is about                 • column: the vertical divisions of a page or

opinion or comment expressed by a regular writer

• columnist: Writer who gathers facts and writes opinions.

• credit line: Acknowledging the source of a picture.

• direct quotation: The exact words that a news source uses in giving information. Quotations marks are always used to set off a direct quotation.

• edition: One of several issues of a newspaper for a single day.

• editor: Person who decides what news goes into the paper, reviews and corrects reporters' work and writes the headlines.

• filler: A copy with little news value; used to fill space.

• headline:  extra large font across top of front page, placed above or below the masthead

• jump: To continue a story from one page to another.

• lead: First paragraph of a story, usually telling the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where and why) and H (how).