>Teenage Newsletter – Communicating Information between the Young

Teenage Newsletter – Communicating Information between the Young

Summary

The aim of this project is to establish contact with a partner school in a foreign country in the form of a monthly newsletter designed and edited by students of two (or more) classes. While improving their writing and reading skills in the English language and learning how to create a class newsletter by using Microsoft Word for PC, they will get to know more about lives and interests of their peers in those countries by using ICT.

Age range: 12 - 15
Language: English
Owner: Nada Purtic

Project stage: In progress
Last update: 15 years ago

Introduction to the topic

After having discussed reasons for reading and different reading materials, students are introduced with the basic newspaper glossary and take part in a role play the aim of which is to practise certain functional exponents while focusing their attention to newspaper features. Finally the concept and purpose of a newsletter is clarified.

Newspaper Features - Speaking Practice (Lesson Plan).doc 46.5 kB

Choosing the newsletter features

By filling in the questionnaire or taking part in a poll, students choose the articles of the newsletter and its title as well as volunteer what to be responsible for in creating, editing and designing a newsletter.

Newsletter Questionnaire.doc 32.0 kB

Working on the newsletter draft

Students work on a draft of the newsletter’s content and layout by selecting, rejecting and sorting out ideas in individual or group brainstorming. Provided with newsletter templates, guiding questions and/or graphic organizers for specific types of the texts (articles, reports, reviews, interviews and stories), they focus on useful language models, construct a preliminary skeleton or examples of the texts.

graphic organizers

objects: 7

graphic organizers for writing certain types of texts

	topic, audience, purpose - graphic organizer.pdf 4.7 kB
	storymap3-graphic organizer.pdf 10.7 kB
	storymap1-graphic organizer.pdf 17.5 kB
	sandwich chart - graphic organizer.pdf 16.6 kB
	event map- graphic organizer.pdf 12.7 kB
	bookreview-graphic organizer.doc 22.5 kB
	5Ws - graphic organizer.pdf 14.2 kB

Newsletter Templates

objects: 3

three templates of newsletter layout

	newsletter template 3.doc 33.0 kB
	newsletter template 2.doc 81.5 kB
	newsletter template 1.doc 67.0 kB

Presenting the newsletter

Students write and submit the final versions of the texts for a monthly newsletter to be presented on the Global Gateway Portal for the students from foreign country to download, read and comment and/or respond to

Teenage Newsletter

objects: 43

September (Serbia); October (Ukraine); November (India); December (Serbia);January (UK); February (Bulgaria);March (Turkey); March (Ukraine)

	Teenage Newsletter March(page 8) 431.5 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(page 7) 596.9 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(page 6) 107.0 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(page 5) 368.8 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 8) 263.5 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 7) 443.2 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 6) 542.7 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 5) 604.3 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 4) 253.8 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 3) 355.8 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 2) 602.0 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 12) 243.4 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(page 4) 394.4 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(Page 3) 194.2 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March(Page 2) 504.5 kB
	Teenage Newsletter March (Page 1) 253.9 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 10) 268.2 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 9) 407.3 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 8) 182.4 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 7) 364.0 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 6) 300.5 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 5) 343.1 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 4) 221.7 kB
	Teenage newsletter - March (page 1) 2.3 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 2) 255.4 kB
	Teenage Newsletter January (page 11) 326.3 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - February.doc 7.5 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - December (page 4).doc 1.6 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - December (page 3).doc 1.8 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - December (page 2).doc 1.8 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - December (page 1).doc 1.8 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - October (page 5).jpg 3.9 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - October (page 4).jpg 4.0 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - October (page 3).jpg 4.1 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 3) 238.3 kB
	Teenage Newsletter - October (page 1).jpg 3.4 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - January (page 1) 1.8 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - October (page 2).jpg 3.9 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - September (page 4).jpg 1.1 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - September (page 3).jpg 1.2 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - September (page 2).jpg 1.5 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - September (page 1).jpg 1.5 MB
	Teenage Newsletter - November.doc 3.1 MB

Teenage Newsletter Issue June(Bulgaria).doc 8.3 MB

Feedback

Having downloaded and read a partner school’s newsletter, students fill in the feedback form and send it back to their partner class by email.

Newsletter feedback poll

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