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LA Practice B1: Enhance writing by using algorithmic logic (Activity)

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Step 7 of 10: Elements of an article
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Read an article

Next you will read a news article and name the sections that give it it's structure. For example, a fiction story will have an introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Now as you read through the article, what are the writing elements that make a news article?

Read the following news story. You can print the page to annotate its sections or on a separate sheet of paper jot some notes down on how the article is structured. Can you name each of its "sections"?

Compare elements of an article

Compare the elements you identified from the new article you read to the basic outline of an article linked here.

Does your outline look similar? What did you miss or what did the Scholastic outline fail to include?

Make any edits to your annotations or notes before moving on to the next step.