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Hit the Headlines: Exciting Journalism Writing Activities for Improving Writing and Thinking Skills

Colin Macfarlane

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Description:Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as:Writing and editing.Critical assessment.Interviewing and observation.Mental flexibility and resourcefulness.Role-playing and teamwork.This book will enable teachers of 9 OCo 15 year-olds to involve their students in a number of effective and well-tested exercises, games and scenarios, which will encourage them into enthusiastically seeking out and gaining further knowledge in areas such as news, journalism, social issues, IT, data assessment, OCyintelligent observationOCO, and enhanced questioning and listening. This is OCyorganic learningOCO at its best!An introduction to the theory behind the book summarises short and long term learning outcomes which your students can achieve through these methods, explaining why scenarios which feel OCyrealOCO can immerse students and inspire them to achieve greater proficiency. The author also flags up particular aspects of the book which encourage readers to read and use it systematically, as well as to take on specific challenges themselves in order to better assist their students in the writing and editing challenges it contains.Practical photocopiable templates for many chapters are provided, which can be used as classroom (and out-of classroom) exercises, examples and solutions to exercises. Through these engrossing journalistic scenarios, students will learn how to critically assess levels of OCyinterest and importanceOCO of diverse facts, and so begin to understand that report or presentation writing of any sort involves sequencing a critical balance between these two factors.Readers and users of this book can go on to customise their own scenarios, drawing on the stimulating techniques outlined to improve their studentsOCO factual writing and related thinking skills. In particular, classroom teachers in primary, middle and secondary schools and all literacy co-ordinators will find this book extremely useful, as well as students studying for PGCEs and NQTs. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hit the Headlines: Exciting Journalism Writing Activities for Improving Writing and Thinking Skills. To get started finding Hit the Headlines: Exciting Journalism Writing Activities for Improving Writing and Thinking Skills, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as:Writing and editing.Critical assessment.Interviewing and observation.Mental flexibility and resourcefulness.Role-playing and teamwork.This book will enable teachers of 9 OCo 15 year-olds to involve their students in a number of effective and well-tested exercises, games and scenarios, which will encourage them into enthusiastically seeking out and gaining further knowledge in areas such as news, journalism, social issues, IT, data assessment, OCyintelligent observationOCO, and enhanced questioning and listening. This is OCyorganic learningOCO at its best!An introduction to the theory behind the book summarises short and long term learning outcomes which your students can achieve through these methods, explaining why scenarios which feel OCyrealOCO can immerse students and inspire them to achieve greater proficiency. The author also flags up particular aspects of the book which encourage readers to read and use it systematically, as well as to take on specific challenges themselves in order to better assist their students in the writing and editing challenges it contains.Practical photocopiable templates for many chapters are provided, which can be used as classroom (and out-of classroom) exercises, examples and solutions to exercises. Through these engrossing journalistic scenarios, students will learn how to critically assess levels of OCyinterest and importanceOCO of diverse facts, and so begin to understand that report or presentation writing of any sort involves sequencing a critical balance between these two factors.Readers and users of this book can go on to customise their own scenarios, drawing on the stimulating techniques outlined to improve their studentsOCO factual writing and related thinking skills. In particular, classroom teachers in primary, middle and secondary schools and all literacy co-ordinators will find this book extremely useful, as well as students studying for PGCEs and NQTs. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hit the Headlines: Exciting Journalism Writing Activities for Improving Writing and Thinking Skills. To get started finding Hit the Headlines: Exciting Journalism Writing Activities for Improving Writing and Thinking Skills, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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