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Using bold letters and very few words headlines capture the “effect” of events in the news. To understand what happened, you have to “read all about it!” The article contains the details and explains the “causes” that led to the headline answering who, what, when and where. The “cause and effect” relationship plays out time and again in every news article! This issue invites your budding journalist to explore the cause/effect connections through silly stories, photographs, illustrations, match ups an more. Because Kid Scoop creates engaging activities using the newspaper (cause), kids learn to understand and navigate news articles (effect)!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about the use of cause and effect in journalism
- understand the relationship between headlines and the body of an article
- analyze a silly story and news articles for causes and effects
- sequence cause and effect events visually
- match causes with effect
- write about an event at school using newspaper format: who, what, when and where
- look for similarities and differences in common objects
7 page PDF
