TASK

TASKS TASK ONE: FIND A STORY. Amazing things happen in the world everyday but which story should you choose? To begin we need to find a story. What sorts of things do we need to know about writing a news story? What sorts of stories are people interested in? Click on the picture below to begin finding stories in the Melbourne Age that people read. Graph these in a Powerpoint presentation and present them to the class.

RESOURCES : Go to Powerpoint Presentation Template __Graph Results For Story Types__ to make your graph.



TASK TWO: RESEARCHING. Now that you have your story, how to go about researching it? What sorts of organisation will you need to do? What aspects of a story need covering? How do you know you've captured the story really well? Follow the link below to try an exercise in ensuring you have researched all the information for your news story. Click on the picture below to read something on creating a newspaper article.

RESOURCES : Go to Inspiration 7.0 Template retrieval chart. [|DISCUSSION] : Go to Discussion to add your own ideas.



TASK THREE: ORGANIZING INFORMATION TO WRITE THE STORY.  =                                            Now you've got all your information, what to do with it? Do we jump straight into writing a feature article or are there some other things we might need to do first? Follow the link below to find out about ways of constructing a news report along with its editing and organizational aspects that will grab a reader's attention. [|READWRITETHINK NOTETAKER]                                                                                                                                     =

TASK FOUR: WRITING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING A FEATURE ARTICLE. Now for the final step. In this exercise you will think about your audience. What are they going to think about your story? Well, depending on how you write it they will either love it or hate it! It's all up to you! The link below will take you to a place where you will be able to check your writing, editing and publishing for your report.

[|FORMULA FOR A NEWS ARTICLE]