Preliminary Exercise: Making a Newspaper Front Page Design

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 OVERVIEW:

A newspaper project allows students in any subject to retell events from a story, history, or even science! They provide a fun structure for demonstrating comprehension and understanding, as well as help students reflect on events. 

These types of lessons can involve getting students to create their own vintage newspaper with news article that explores a particular topic or subject.  This type of activity typically involves researching, writing, and editing news articles, as well as designing and formatting the newspaper layout.

 The main goal of a newspaper project for students is to improve students' writing and critical thinking skills, as well as their understanding of a particular topic or issue.

STANDARDS:

19.0 Identify project requirements, define project planning, and understand the design process.

23.0 Demonstrate an understanding of elements and principles of design.

29.0 Demonstrate understanding in page layout using desktop publishing applications.

FORMAT:

Indesign 11X17 set columns in the file
Include:

  • Title section of the newspaper
  • Headline section with main picture
  • Article 1 with story-relevant pictures
  • Article 2 with story-relevant picture (optional)
  • Remaining articles where relevant
  • Fun Facts Section
  • Games and puzzles section
  • Classified ads section
  • Credits section
    • Headline: The main purpose of the headline is to grab the reader's attention. It should be short and not include too many details, but just enough to encourage the reader to read the entire article.
    • Byline: This is the section that gives credit to the author of the article.
    • Location: Typical journalistic articles include the location close to the byline section and the location included is usually the press office from which the article is produced.
    • Lead Paragraph: This is the initial paragraph that usually includes what journalists would call a ‘lead’ which is the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘where’, and ‘how’ of the main story.
    • Supporting Paragraph: These paragraphs elaborate on the rest of the details surrounding the story.

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