Lesson 15

Everyday Words

b. With your teacher, choose a newspaper article to read. After reading, find three facts, or true statements, that are in your news article. Use a highlighter pen to mark them.

c. After reading the article or story, you can remember most of the basic information if you ask yourself the following questions:

1) Who is the article about?

2) What happened in the article?

3) When did the story take place?

4) Where did the story take place?

5) Why was the story written? What did the person who wrote the story want people to know?

These questions are called the 5-W questions:

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Use these questions when you are writing to help you gather important information.

d. Think of an event you know about such as a special family event, birthday party, or holiday celebration. Pretend you are a newspaper reporter and orally, or in writing, answer the following 5-W Questions. This would be the basis for an article about the event.

1) Who attended the event?

2) What event was being celebrated?

3) When did the event take place?

4) Where did the event take place?

5) Why was the event held?

Optional: If you want to write a story about this event, you may include pictures and captions as well.

e. Optional: Take your spelling test today.