OLC40P: Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course
Complete the following assignment and submit your work to your teacher.
Go to the following three web sites – the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Sun:
Select ONE news article from each of the three newspapers. IF possible, find the news article reporting the same story in each of these papers. Email these to your teacher. Use the following chart to record your observations for each of the three news articles. You will be focusing on the features/ form and structure of the news articles.
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Globe and Mail |
The Toronto Star |
The Toronto Sun |
Was there a Headline? |
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Was there a Sub heading? |
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Was there a By line? |
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Was a newspaper acknowledged? |
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Was there a lead paragraph? How many sentences made up the lead paragraph? |
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How many more paragraphs were there in the news report? |
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What parts were bolded or had larger fonts? |
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Were there italics in the news report? |
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What punctuation marks other than the period or the comma stood out in the news report? |
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Were there pictures with captions in the news report? |
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Were there charts or diagrams or any other graphical features in the news report? |
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Click here to download the above chart.
When completed, submit to your teacher. Remember to email the news articles as well.
Rubric Click to view the long description of the rubric for the assignment.
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