Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBGJae923488; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:36:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:36:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <ac.e5c1bc8.276d1dd6@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Ca412@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5383] Re: newspaper summaries X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 142 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 429 Lines: 7 I always taught the who-what-when-where-why-how format. The students would search for the answer to each of those questions, then use that information to write brief summaries. Of course, it does depend on the language level, and not all newspaper articles have the answers to all of the questions. Another activity would be to practice writing questions with each question word, once the students find the information.
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