Looking at Newspapers This PPT accompanies a separate PDF resource (which includes a sample newspaper quiz, detailed teaching instructions and two “5 Ws and 1 H” activities). Kindly contributed by Ellie Walsh, Devon Adult and Community Learning,

Today you will:  Identify the parts of today’s standard newspaper  Identify the differences between newspaper and other media sources  Recognize the daily uses of a newspaper  Identify the different parts of a news story Identify bias in news stories  Understand the interviewing process  Write a short news story, complete with quotations

Write for 5 minutes on one of the following topics I use newspapers for… OR I never use newspapers because….

These are some of the words we are going to use  Article  Byline  Critic  Edit  Editor  Editorial  Feature  Front page  Headline  Media  Opinion  Tabloid

The maxim of the Five Ws (and one H) is that in order for a report to be considered complete it must answer a checklist of six questions, WWWWho? Who was involved? WWWWhat? What happened (what's the story)? WWWWhen? When did it take place? WWWWhere? Where did it take place? WWWWhy? Why did it happen? HHHHow? How did it happen?

from Wikipedia accessed 15/06/09 The "Five Ws" (and one H) were written about by Rudyard Kipling I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

What’s clever about this technique?  Each question should elicit a factual answer  Importantly, none of these questions can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no".  In the context of the "news style" the five Ws are types of facts that should be contained in the "lead" or first two or three paragraphs of the story,