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Reading
Articles for Meaning
Designed by: M.B. Wright, Satchel Ford
Elementary School
Grade
Level: Third Subject:
Language Arts
Core
Curriculum Objective (s): Students will read and
interpret a variety of texts, such as newspapers.
Overview:
Students will choose a newspaper, or magazine
article to read and interpret to report on and
summarize for the rest of the class.
Focus/
Essential Question (s): What are
newspaper/magazine articles about? How do you
summarize an article?
Time
Frame: One fifty minute lesson
Resource
Materials:
Newspapers
Magazines
Overhead (teacher model)
Highlighter
Pens
Five different colored markers
Index Cards
Culminating
Assessment: Working in pairs, students will
choose an article from the newspaper or magazine of
their choice. They will read the article together,
taking turns, and summarize aloud what the article
is about. They will be asked to highlight the five
"w's" of the article. Who the article is
about, what is the article is about, where did the
article take place, when was the article written and
why it was written? All five of these questions will
be written on their index cards.
Rubric
for assessing article
| Points |
Criteria |
| 0 |
Student
did not answer any of the "w"
questions on the index cards |
| 1 |
Student
answered one of the "w" questions
on the index card |
| 2 |
Student
answered two of the "w" questions
on the index cards |
| 3 |
Student
answered three of the "w"
questions on the index cards |
| 4 |
Student
answered four of the "w" questions
on the index cards |
| 5 |
Student
answered all of the "w" questions
on the index cards |
Instructional
Activities
Activity
One: Teacher will model this activity for
students. Choose an article to read aloud. Write the
words: who, what where, when and why on the board.
As you read tell students to listen for the answers
to these questions. Read the article aloud and have
students raise their hand to answer the questions.
They should answer these questions in complete
sentences. Have students choose an article from a
magazine or newspaper to read and answer some
questions about. Remind students, it needs to be
something that they are interested in. Once they
have chosen an article have students switch with
another student. They read each other's article and
discuss the five "w's" of the article with
each other. After sharing have each student read
another article. They should get their article back
and use the highlighter marker to highlight the who,
what, where, when and why of the article. Have
students write down the who, what, where, when, and
why of the article on the index cards. For example,
on the front of the card they will write
"who" and on the back they write who the
article was about in a complete sentence. After they
write down all five of these things, have students
share with the same partner to see if they agree. If
the partner does not agree, they need to discuss how
to change the card and get another index card to fix
the problem. Once all students are finished, have
students volunteer to share with the class what they
discovered about the article. Tell students that
this activity is a good thing to do in their mind
whenever they read any kind of text to get meaning,
and to help them remember the important aspects of
the text. Once students are finished you can display
the articles and cards together on a table for other
students to read and compare the "w"
questions. Explain that articles can be fun to read
because they are usually shorter than a story,
however, they still have meaning. This activity can
be done weekly to keep students informed of current
events, or just to see that students are gathering
meaning from what they read. |
