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Project: the school newspaper

Possible activities around newspapers
Language

  • Observe different types of writing(newspapers, catalogues, magazines, directories,...)

-compare, sort​, (size, thickness, weight, cover or not)

- name them, explain the clues that allowed them to be identified

- specify their functions

-Who am I? (I'm the tallest, thinnest, and I don't have a blanket)...

 

  • the newspaper :

-Specific vocabulary:

presentation, layout, typography,

front page, columns, headings,

images (differentiate between photographs, drawings, maps, etc.) captions

The advertisement

-Function :

means of communication, sharing knowledge, information

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Production of writings

  • Production of the class newspaper, of the school

(work on content)

choose a title, format, characteristics, headings, texts

shaping, frequency

  • Making a Newsstand

subscription to children's magazines

classification of magazines and newspapers

newspaper price, buy/sell​

Newspapers

  • The realization:

- dictation to the adult; short story, questionnaire, survey, report, poem, recipe, production sheet...

-choose photos or make drawings

-use the age-appropriate word processor

- vary the forms of writing according to the texts

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Explore the material

crease, rub, tear, cut, wet, glue, paint

Use digital tools

  • Take photos to illustrate an article (digital camera, tablet)

  • Make a report (recording, camera)

  • Make an inquiry 

  • Make articles (computer)

Log manipulation

Adopt the correct posture with enough space (on the floor for example)

learn to unfold, open, unfold, close the newspaper

put the newspaper in the right direction and turn the pages correctly

understand the organization of the support, see that the front page and the last page are on a single sheet and what contain the others

Study of the front page

Attention that focuses on the photo of the event (choose an auspicious date, corresponding to a local party or event)

Get the students to take an interest in other elements, the banner (with the name of the newspaper, the date, the price, the city), the size of the characters, the function of the title, the function of the illustration

be aware that some articles have a continuation inside the newspaper 

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inside the diary, we can make assumptions about the content of certain captions. validate or invalidate by la lecture de l'adulte. image/text relationship. signature of texts. differentiate between information and advertising

Workshops with newspapers

  • Find the letters of his first name, cut them out and glue them

  • Find long words, short words, cut them up and then classify them

  • Count the number of letters in a title, the number of words

  • Find and cut photos of faces, classify them according to expressions (joy, sadness, anger...)

  • Find and cut out images of animals, classify them (familiar, wild, farm animals...fly, swim, walk)

  • Search and cut images with children, classify them (sports, leisure, travel, war...)

  • little detectives: looking for something that can be eaten, something very big that you can't carry, something very small that you can put in your pocket, something that is expensive,...

  • Make paper objects 

goals

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  • get to know the world of writing better and find your way around

  • collect visual cues

  • understand the organization of a newspaper and know how to navigate

  • make assumptions about the meaning

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  • inform, communicate,

  • arouse the desire to write and read

  • choose a subject

  • exchange, debate, criticize, compare, sort

  • illustrate, to lay out

  • caption a photo or drawing

  • use digital tools

the goal

  • correspondence with another school

  • information for parents

To go further.......the magazine TV

Goals :

Discovering a new type of writing - observing different television magazines 

  • discover their specificity

  • their content: constants and differences

  • location and identification of words, logos, acronyms

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Session 1:

How do you know these are TV magazines?

discovery of the specificity of magazines

identification of titles - presence of the word TV - photos of films or programs

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Session 2:

How do we use it?

content discovery

- search for days   (abbreviated writing or not, vertical or horizontal presentation)

- the acronyms of the different channels

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Session 3:

Locating children's shows or movies

- notion of chronology (morning, noon, evening)

-presence of numbers to indicate the hours

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