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Contact: jbishop@nkschools.org or 394-4975
 
Reading Homework for Tuesdays due on Friday of each week. 

Standard: GLE: 2.1.6 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies to understand
informational text: generate and answer questions.
 
Name________________________________ Date___________ Period _____
 
Choose an article from the newspaper that you would like to know more about.
Cut the article out and staple it onto the back of this page.
 
1. The name of my newspaper is ______________________________________
 
2. The date of the newspaper is ______________________________________
 
3.  The name of the newspaper article I have chosen is _____________________
     
     ___________________________________________________________
 
4. I chose this article because _______________________________________
     
     ____________________________________________________________
 
5. My article is about ______________________________________________
     
     ___________________________________________________________
   
     and _________________________________________________________
     
      ___________________________________________________________
 
6. I learned the following two things from reading this article:
   
    First, I learned that_____________________________________________ 
    
     ____________________________________________________________
     
     Secondly, I learned that __________________________________________
     
     ____________________________________________________________
 
7. The person I would recommend to read this article is _____________________
    
     because ______________________________________________________
    
     _____________________________________________________________
 
Newspaper Presentations will be held on Friday! Students will correctly answer who, what, where, and when comprehension questions following their newspaper presentation. Each student will score their peers by reading and following directions on the Newspaper Activity Rubrics below.

Name of Presenter __________________

Newspaper Activity Rubrics

 

Standard:

GLE: 2.1.6  Apply comprehension monitoring strategies to understand informational text: generate and answer questions.

 

Criteria

 

The Student:

1

Not Yet

2

Almost

3

Yes

 

Score

Did the presenter give the name and date of the newspaper?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter give the name of the newspaper article?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter explain why he or she chose the article?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter know what the article was about and give good details?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter tell you two things he or she learned from the article?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter speak in a speaker’s voice (not too loud and not too soft)?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter make eye contact with the audience?

 

 

 

 

Did the presenter seem interested in the chosen article?

 

 

 

 

                                                           

Your Name _______________________                  Total Points: ________

 

 
 
 
 
Last Modified on October 14, 2011