Sixth-grade+Newspaper

Presenter: ** Mary Ellen McQueen, ** Grade 5 and 6 English Teacher School: ** [|Albany Academies]

Description: ** Three years ago I started working with our Resident-writer and reporter from our local newspaper, Paul Grondahl. Together, we have created a unit in which each girl establishes a topic for an article, creates interview questions, conducts interviews, researches topics/subjects, etc.. After the initial rough draft is created, Paul and I edit them and then the girls are broken into newspaper teams: layout and design, copy editors, photo/visual editors, production and distribution editors, and editors-in chief. This unit lasts about a month and a half.