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MAP Newspaper Activities Grades 7-8
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MAP Newspaper Activities Communication Arts - Grade 6
Grade 6 – Reading 1. Develop & Apply skills and strategies to the reading process.
C- Phonics Locate unknown words in stories, headline, picture captions and the comics, and apply decoding strategies to problem solve to determine pronunciation and meaning when needed.
D – Fluency Read grade level newspaper text with fluency, accuracy and expression, adjusting reading rate to difficulty and type of text.
E- Vocabulary Use words found in newspaper stories, headlines, picture captions and the comics to assist in developing vocabulary through roots and affixes, and context clues. Use glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus as needed.
F- Pre-Reading Use grade level newspaper text to apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension, access prior knowledge, preview, predict with evidence and set a purpose for reading.
G- During Reading During newspaper reading, utilize strategies to determine meaning of unknown words, monitor comprehension, question the text and make inferences. Use skills to visualize, paraphrase and summarize events.
H – Post Reading Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret, analyze, and evaluate text: question to clarify, reflect, draw conclusions, summarize, and paraphrase. I- Making Connections Have students compare, contrast and analyze connections between newspaper (non-fiction) stories and fiction (text to text) and the relevance of news items to their world (text to self). Students should demonstrate awareness that newspapers reflect a culture and historic time frame (text to world).
2. & 3. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction/ nonfiction (newspapers) …..
A- Text Features Analyze text to clarify meaning, emphasizing consumer texts (newspapers).
B – Literary Techniques Use newspaper text to identify and explain literacy techniques, emphasizing hyperbole, imagery, and propaganda.
C-Literary Elements/ Text Structures Use details from newspaper text to identify plot and sub-plot, mood, flashback, theme and types of conflict. Analyze cause and effect, identify and explain point of view, evaluate the problems solving processes of characters and the effectiveness of solutions. Use details from text to summarize author’s (writer’s) ideas, make predictions, make inferences, and evaluate the accuracy of the information. Analyze two or more nonfiction texts to: sequence events, compare and contrast; compare writers’ viewpoints; identify and explain cause and effect.
D – Understanding Directions Using feature (soft news) article information; read and follow multi-step directions to complete a complex task. Examples: Construct a craft item, use a recipe to bake something, solve a puzzle, etc.
Grade 6 - Writing
1. Apply a writing process in composing text. Using a news story as an example, have students write a story about a news event. The writing process should include; use of an appropriate prewriting strategy, generating a draft; reread and revise for audience and purpose, ideas and content, organization and sentence structure and word choice, edit for conventions (W2E) and publish writing.
2. Compose well-developed text
A – Audience and purpose Write a feature (soft news) article showing awareness of audience and choosing a form appropriate to topic and specific audience.
B- Ideas and content Write an editorial using a strong, controlling idea, with relevant, specific details.
C – Organization and Sentence Structure Write a news story including a clear beginning, middle and end, a logical order, appropriate paragraphing, and a variety of sentence structures including complex sentences and cohesive devices, especially transitions.
D – Word Choice Summarize a sport’s story using precise and vivid language and use writing techniques including figurative language, sensory detail and purposeful dialogue.
E- Conventions Write newspaper text (stories, articles, letters, editorials, etc.). Use the following writing conventions: Capitalize within dialogue. Use commas correctly in quotation marks in dialogue, and semi-colon in compound sentences. Use correct agreement of pronoun and antecedent, and consistent verb tense. Use standard spelling and classroom resources/dictionary to edit for correct spelling.
3. Write effectively in various forms and types of writing Compose a variety of newspaper texts, including weather forecasts, ads, comics, headlines, recipes, movie listings, letters, etc, using narrative, descriptive, expository, and/or persuasive features. Include a summary responding to literature.
Grade 8 – Reading 1. Develop & Apply skills and strategies to the reading process.
C- Phonics Locate unknown words in stories, headline, picture captions and the comics, and apply decoding strategies to problem solve to determine pronunciation and meaning when needed.
D – Fluency Read grade level newspaper text with fluency, accuracy and expression, adjusting reading rate to difficulty and type of text.
E- Vocabulary Use words found in newspaper stories, headlines, picture captions and the comics to assist in developing vocabulary through roots and affixes, and context clues. Use glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus as needed.
F- Pre-Reading Use grade level newspaper text to apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension, access prior knowledge, preview, predict with evidence and set a purpose for reading.
G- During Reading During newspaper reading, utilize strategies to determine meaning of unknown words, monitor comprehension, question the text and make inferences. Use skills to visualize, paraphrase and summarize events.
H – Post Reading Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret, analyze, and evaluate text: question to clarify, reflect, draw conclusions, summarize, and paraphrase.
I- Making Connections Have students compare, contrast and analyze connections between newspaper (non-fiction) stories and fiction (text to text) and the relevance of news items to their world (text to self). Students should demonstrate awareness that newspapers reflect a culture and historic time frame (text to world).
2. & 3. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction/ nonfiction (newspapers) …..
A- Text Features Explain and evaluate the author’s (writer’s) use of text features to clarify meaning.
B – Literary Techniques Use newspaper text to identify and explain literacy techniques, emphasizing jargon, dialect, slang, symbolism and analyze literacy techniques previously introduced.
C-Literary Elements/ Text Structures Use details from newspaper text to: identify and explain flashback, mood and theme; analyze point of view; determine how an incident foreshadows a future event; interpret actions, behaviors and motives of individuals; evaluate the problem solving processes of characters, and the effectiveness of solutions. Use details from text to evaluate adequacy of evidence presented by the writer and determine writer’s purpose based on text analysis. Analyze text for word choice and connotation, organizational effectiveness, and accuracy of information. Analyze multiple non-fiction texts, including newspapers, to: compare and contrast; determine importance of information; analyze authors’ viewpoints; identify problem solving processes; and explain the effectiveness of solutions.
D – Understanding Directions Using feature (soft news) article information; read and follow multi-step directions to complete a complex task. Examples: Construct a craft item, use a recipe to bake something, solve a puzzle, etc.
Grade 8-Writing
1. Apply a writing process in composing text. Conduct interviews on a current subject. Write a report from your investigation. The writing process should include; use of an appropriate prewriting strategy, generating a draft; revise for audience and purpose, ideas and content, organization and sentence structure and word choice, edit for conventions (W2E) and publish writing.
2. Compose well-developed text A – Audience and purpose Write a feature (soft news) article showing awareness of audience and choosing a form and point of view appropriate to purpose and audience.
B- Ideas and content Write an editorial using a strong, controlling idea, with relevant, specific details, complex ideas, and freshness of thought.
C – Organization and Sentence Structure Write a news or feature story including an effective beginning, middle and end, a logical order, effective paragraphing, and a variety of sentence structures including: compound-complex sentences and cohesive devices; including transitions; repetition; pronoun antecedent; and parallel structure.
D – Word Choice Summarize a sport’s story using precise and vivid language and use writing techniques including figurative language, sensory detail and purposeful dialogue.
E- Conventions Write newspaper text (stories, articles, letters, editorials, etc.). Use the following writing conventions: capitalization, and use of colon and semi-colon in compound sentences. Use correct pronoun case. Use standard spelling and classroom resources/dictionary and spell-check to edit for correct spelling.
3. Write effectively in various forms and types of writing Compose a variety of newspaper texts, including weather forecasts, ads, comics, headlines, recipes, movie listings, letters, etc, using narrative, descriptive, expository, and/or persuasive features, in various formats. Include a workplace communication (employment application letter) from a classified ad job listing, with a correctly addressed envelope, or e-mail communication.
MAP Newspaper Activities Communication Arts - Grade 6
Grade 6 – Reading 1. Develop & Apply skills and strategies to the reading process.
C- Phonics Locate unknown words in stories, headline, picture captions and the comics, and apply decoding strategies to problem solve to determine pronunciation and meaning when needed.
D – Fluency Read grade level newspaper text with fluency, accuracy and expression, adjusting reading rate to difficulty and type of text.
E- Vocabulary Use words found in newspaper stories, headlines, picture captions and the comics to assist in developing vocabulary through roots and affixes, and context clues. Use glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus as needed.
F- Pre-Reading Use grade level newspaper text to apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension, access prior knowledge, preview, predict with evidence and set a purpose for reading.
G- During Reading During newspaper reading, utilize strategies to determine meaning of unknown words, monitor comprehension, question the text and make inferences. Use skills to visualize, paraphrase and summarize events.
H – Post Reading Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret, analyze, and evaluate text: question to clarify, reflect, draw conclusions, summarize, and paraphrase. I- Making Connections Have students compare, contrast and analyze connections between newspaper (non-fiction) stories and fiction (text to text) and the relevance of news items to their world (text to self). Students should demonstrate awareness that newspapers reflect a culture and historic time frame (text to world).
2. & 3. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction/ nonfiction (newspapers) …..
A- Text Features Analyze text to clarify meaning, emphasizing consumer texts (newspapers).
B – Literary Techniques Use newspaper text to identify and explain literacy techniques, emphasizing hyperbole, imagery, and propaganda.
C-Literary Elements/ Text Structures Use details from newspaper text to identify plot and sub-plot, mood, flashback, theme and types of conflict. Analyze cause and effect, identify and explain point of view, evaluate the problems solving processes of characters and the effectiveness of solutions. Use details from text to summarize author’s (writer’s) ideas, make predictions, make inferences, and evaluate the accuracy of the information. Analyze two or more nonfiction texts to: sequence events, compare and contrast; compare writers’ viewpoints; identify and explain cause and effect.
D – Understanding Directions Using feature (soft news) article information; read and follow multi-step directions to complete a complex task. Examples: Construct a craft item, use a recipe to bake something, solve a puzzle, etc.
Grade 6 - Writing
1. Apply a writing process in composing text. Using a news story as an example, have students write a story about a news event. The writing process should include; use of an appropriate prewriting strategy, generating a draft; reread and revise for audience and purpose, ideas and content, organization and sentence structure and word choice, edit for conventions (W2E) and publish writing.
2. Compose well-developed text
A – Audience and purpose Write a feature (soft news) article showing awareness of audience and choosing a form appropriate to topic and specific audience.
B- Ideas and content Write an editorial using a strong, controlling idea, with relevant, specific details.
C – Organization and Sentence Structure Write a news story including a clear beginning, middle and end, a logical order, appropriate paragraphing, and a variety of sentence structures including complex sentences and cohesive devices, especially transitions.
D – Word Choice Summarize a sport’s story using precise and vivid language and use writing techniques including figurative language, sensory detail and purposeful dialogue.
E- Conventions Write newspaper text (stories, articles, letters, editorials, etc.). Use the following writing conventions: Capitalize within dialogue. Use commas correctly in quotation marks in dialogue, and semi-colon in compound sentences. Use correct agreement of pronoun and antecedent, and consistent verb tense. Use standard spelling and classroom resources/dictionary to edit for correct spelling.
3. Write effectively in various forms and types of writing Compose a variety of newspaper texts, including weather forecasts, ads, comics, headlines, recipes, movie listings, letters, etc, using narrative, descriptive, expository, and/or persuasive features. Include a summary responding to literature.
Grade 8 – Reading 1. Develop & Apply skills and strategies to the reading process.
C- Phonics Locate unknown words in stories, headline, picture captions and the comics, and apply decoding strategies to problem solve to determine pronunciation and meaning when needed.
D – Fluency Read grade level newspaper text with fluency, accuracy and expression, adjusting reading rate to difficulty and type of text.
E- Vocabulary Use words found in newspaper stories, headlines, picture captions and the comics to assist in developing vocabulary through roots and affixes, and context clues. Use glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus as needed.
F- Pre-Reading Use grade level newspaper text to apply pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension, access prior knowledge, preview, predict with evidence and set a purpose for reading.
G- During Reading During newspaper reading, utilize strategies to determine meaning of unknown words, monitor comprehension, question the text and make inferences. Use skills to visualize, paraphrase and summarize events.
H – Post Reading Apply post-reading skills to comprehend and interpret, analyze, and evaluate text: question to clarify, reflect, draw conclusions, summarize, and paraphrase.
I- Making Connections Have students compare, contrast and analyze connections between newspaper (non-fiction) stories and fiction (text to text) and the relevance of news items to their world (text to self). Students should demonstrate awareness that newspapers reflect a culture and historic time frame (text to world).
2. & 3. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction/ nonfiction (newspapers) …..
A- Text Features Explain and evaluate the author’s (writer’s) use of text features to clarify meaning.
B – Literary Techniques Use newspaper text to identify and explain literacy techniques, emphasizing jargon, dialect, slang, symbolism and analyze literacy techniques previously introduced.
C-Literary Elements/ Text Structures Use details from newspaper text to: identify and explain flashback, mood and theme; analyze point of view; determine how an incident foreshadows a future event; interpret actions, behaviors and motives of individuals; evaluate the problem solving processes of characters, and the effectiveness of solutions. Use details from text to evaluate adequacy of evidence presented by the writer and determine writer’s purpose based on text analysis. Analyze text for word choice and connotation, organizational effectiveness, and accuracy of information. Analyze multiple non-fiction texts, including newspapers, to: compare and contrast; determine importance of information; analyze authors’ viewpoints; identify problem solving processes; and explain the effectiveness of solutions.
D – Understanding Directions Using feature (soft news) article information; read and follow multi-step directions to complete a complex task. Examples: Construct a craft item, use a recipe to bake something, solve a puzzle, etc.
Grade 8-Writing
1. Apply a writing process in composing text. Conduct interviews on a current subject. Write a report from your investigation. The writing process should include; use of an appropriate prewriting strategy, generating a draft; revise for audience and purpose, ideas and content, organization and sentence structure and word choice, edit for conventions (W2E) and publish writing.
2. Compose well-developed text A – Audience and purpose Write a feature (soft news) article showing awareness of audience and choosing a form and point of view appropriate to purpose and audience.
B- Ideas and content Write an editorial using a strong, controlling idea, with relevant, specific details, complex ideas, and freshness of thought.
C – Organization and Sentence Structure Write a news or feature story including an effective beginning, middle and end, a logical order, effective paragraphing, and a variety of sentence structures including: compound-complex sentences and cohesive devices; including transitions; repetition; pronoun antecedent; and parallel structure.
D – Word Choice Summarize a sport’s story using precise and vivid language and use writing techniques including figurative language, sensory detail and purposeful dialogue.
E- Conventions Write newspaper text (stories, articles, letters, editorials, etc.). Use the following writing conventions: capitalization, and use of colon and semi-colon in compound sentences. Use correct pronoun case. Use standard spelling and classroom resources/dictionary and spell-check to edit for correct spelling.
3. Write effectively in various forms and types of writing Compose a variety of newspaper texts, including weather forecasts, ads, comics, headlines, recipes, movie listings, letters, etc, using narrative, descriptive, expository, and/or persuasive features, in various formats. Include a workplace communication (employment application letter) from a classified ad job listing, with a correctly addressed envelope, or e-mail communication.
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