Current News Issue Activity Worksheets
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Current News Issue Activity

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Current News Issue Activity

Teaching activities for introducing journalism to grades 7-10 students.
Students will learn to identify weak and strong leads as they complete this printable. Good journalism is reporters that are able to write strong leads. This is a great activity for your grade 10 media class.

Current issues include but are not limited to, disasters, conflict, health concerns, crime and political events.
The task: Identify three news stories that convey an issue either locally nor internationally. For each story, determine if the lead is strong or weak and explain why:

1 Title:

Lead:

2 Title:

Lead:

3 Title:

Lead:

For the weakest story, re-write the lead:


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