Need your students to take a deep dive into expository writing? This Journalistic Newspaper Article Writing Mini-Unit has everything you need to take to engage students in learning about writing in the expository genre with a fun twist: Writing newspaper articles. This mini-unit includes six low-prep and 100% digital expository writing lessons. Everything you need for each lesson is included, and each one is quick and easy to set up.
Break down expository writing for your students with this scaffolded middle school ELA unit by teaching each lesson over the course of one week. Your students will be newspaper article writing experts at the end of this unit.
Here's what's included:
- Six expository writing newspaper article writing mini-lessons
- Digital and PDF teaching slides for each lesson
- Multiple newspaper article examples
- Answer keys for all student activities and exit tickets
Your students will love learning, reviewing, and applying their learning about expository writing and the inverted pyramid of journalistic writing with scaffolded writing lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one to allow you to increase the rigor each day while also having varied activities and assessments to keep students engaged.
The activities that accompany these lessons are 100% done for you. You will simply need to print what you need or assign copies of the student's notebook in Google Classroom. Some lessons can be printed and prepped and used year after year.
Prep is quick and easy... Print the student pages, set up your examples or slides to be displayed, and teach each scaffolded lesson.
The 6 lessons are:
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 1: Background + Active Engagement
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 2: Introduction
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 3: Brainstorming
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 4: Newspaper Article Writing Outlines: Application Part One
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 5: Newspaper Article Writing Final Pieces: Application Part Two
- Newspaper Article Writing Lesson 6: Optional or Extension Presentation or Gallery Walks
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