March 15, 2014 by News Writing Finding the news A three-day lesson on how to find and report the news by being aware of the audience for a publication or broadcast Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing News writing structure A multi-part lesson teaches a basic, effective structure for news writing, a modified inverted pyramid form of Lead-Quote-Transition-Quote (LQTQ) Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing Analyze the pros: Reading news from a news writer’s perspective A lesson in analyzing current news to help students understand how to put facts in a logical order and how basic news is structured Read more
March 15, 2014 by News Writing The basic news lead: The 5W’s and H A multi-part lesson introducing students to the basic information required for news with a four-step process for writing basic news leads Read more
March 5, 2014 by Opinion Writing Tone in column writing A lesson about identifying and using a formal tone in columns. Read more
March 5, 2014 by Opinion Writing Ethics in column writing Students learn how the SPJ Code of Ethics applies to opinion writing and work in groups to discuss how they would deal with potentially difficult ethical situations in writing. Read more