SUBSCRIBE chat center Gazette|Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise NEW LESSONS SEARCH BROWSE SUBMIT! Share | Print Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set #1625. Tabloid Headlines Reading/Writing, level: Elementary Posted Sat Mar 11 13:37:54 PST 2000 by JSmith@AlternativeParenting.com (Jsmith@AlternativeParenting.com). Alternative Parenting's Lesson Plans Home Page AlternativeParenting.com, NYC, USA Materials Required: Tobloid newspaper headlines, paper, pen or pencil Activity Time: 30-60 minutes Concepts Taught: Creative writing and story telling This can be as simple or as drawn out as you would like it. I use this activity to really get the creative juices rolling so I don't put to much emphasis on drafting and perfection. This assignment is perfect if you are having trouble motivating children to write. First purchase a tabloid and go through it cutting out all the interesting (and age appropriate) headlines. For example, you should be left with quite a collection of MY MOTHER ATE MY BATHTUB! and OUR PLANE WAS HIJACKED BY ALIENS and 5 TON OCTOPUS MAN FOUND IN IGLOO articles. Then the fun begins, throw out the actual stories and let your children create their own. They will have so much fun. We would pick our headlines on Monday, hand them in and correct them by Friday. At the end of the day Friday we would read the hilarious 'news article' out loud. It was a fun way to end the week and the kids look forward to the new headlines each Monday. You could even make your own Sci-Fi newsletter.

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