Features of

Newspaper Article.
Grade 4 National
Unit 6 ‘Making the Headlines’
Lesson 2
 Success Criteria :
I can identify the features of newspaper articles.
 What Are Headlines?
Headlines are found in different forms - in print
newspapers.

They are the main title of the news stories.

Newspaper headlines appear in bold/extra large

print as a title at the top of each news story.
You might also see a list of them on the front
page.
What’s the Purpose of Headlines?
In the media industry, people say that headlines “tell and sell.”
What does ‘tell and sell’ mean?
Discuss It
Have a chat and then compare your
results.
Compare It ‘tell’ = telling people what the news story
is about.
‘sell’ = making people read, watch, click or
listen to the news story.

So headline are written to make the

article more interesting for people
to read.
What’s the Headline?

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What’s the Headline?

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What’s the Headline?

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What’s the Headline?

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What’s the Headline?

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 Worksheet 1
Match the headlines with the report
About ten thousand soldiers were seen marching up and down the hill near us. A Sheep magically disappeared.
1

2
It has been reported that Little Mary cannot find her sheep. They seem to B Rescued by heroes
have magically disappeared. She has looked for them everywhere.

3
Although the old bus stop beside a village is used rarely. The only way C School year with shorter
Hannah gets to the village is by bus. But this is about to change. The village summer holiday
cannot afford to run a bus service.

4
Temperatures today will not rise above 12 oC, which is below average for D Magic Pyramid
June. There is a possibility of rain and gusts of wind.
5
Jane and Ross are heroes to 84 year old Mrs. Jones. “They saved my life,” E No buses to or from the
she said from her hospital bed. village.
6
It would be good to have the school year split into four terms instead of two. F Where is the Summer?
The summer holiday is too long. We forget a lot during a six weeks holiday.
If we had shorter summer holiday we would not need to spend so much time
on revision every September.
7
Dave thinks that there really is a monster living in town. He has taken G Peacock excitement
strange dark monster shapes near the river.

8
A Scientist has been researching pyramids. He has discovered a pyramid with H Invasion Scare
a magical entrance.

9
A new trap for catching woodworms is on sale in store. We will no longer have I River Monster Scare!
to use poisonous sprays to get rid of them.

A peacock has been seen flying over the twon. It was reported missing from J Poisonous sprays out of
10

the zoo last week. It created a lot of excitement around the area. fashion
The 17 year old learnt she had
Let’s find the past tense.
won the award in a chemistry
lesson, when another teacher
came into the classroom to tell
her.

Malala has been recognized

for her hard work promoting
the right for all children,
especially girls, to go to
school. Around 57 million
Malala attending
children worldwide don’t get the Woman of
that chance.
the year awards,
When Malala was 15, 2013
She was shot on her way to
school, for speaking out about
the subject of girl’s education.
Malala was badly hurt in the
attack but was flown to Britain
for treatment and has
recovered well. She lives and
goes to school in Britain now,
and continues her campaigning.
 Lead Paragraph -Introduction
For a good lead paragraph, you
Yesterday afternoon, a young girl and her
need to;
• Make the paragraph short and grandmother miraculously survived a run-
snappy so that it briefly in with a ravenous wolf. Little Red Riding
explains what has happened;
• Ensure that, even if the Hood was visiting her grandmother’s
reader stopped reading at cottage in the forest when both were
this point, they would still
swallowed alive by the creature.
know roughly what happened;
• Use past tense in most cases; However, luck was on their side, as a local
• Make sure the first who was involved;
woodcutter was on hand to cut them
paragraph answers as many of
these six questions as you can what happened;
free.
– where the event took place;
Who? What? Where? Why?
When? How? when the event happened.

The report states facts and should not

give the writer’s personal opinion at any
point.
 Does the headline make you want to
Headline
Malala’s award read the article? Why? Why not?

Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan has become the youngest person ever to win
the Nobel Peace Prize. The sentence that shows the
main idea of the article.

By line
by Ebenezer Picture
Grimes

The 17 year old learnt she Malala attending the Caption

had won the award in a
paragraph chemistry lesson, when
another teacher came into
the classroom to tell her.
Malala has been recognized for
her hard work promoting the
right for all children, especially
girls, to go to school. Around 57
million children worldwide don’t
get that chance.
When Malala was 15,
She was shot on her way to
school, for speaking out about
the subject of girl’s education.
Malala was badly hurt in the
attack but was flown to Britain
for treatment and has
recovered well. She lives and
goes to school in Britain now,
and continues her campaigning.
Woman of the year
awards, 2013
quotation
Malala said: “When I found I had
won the Nobel Peace Prize I
decided I would not leave my
school, I would finish my school
time. I went to the physics lessons,
I learnt. I went to the English
lesson.
I considered it like a normal day…
I’m proud I’m the first Pakistani
and the first young woman or the
first young person who is getting
this award. It’s a great honour for
me.”
conclusion
The Nobel Peace Prize is
one of a number of Nobel
Prizes given to people or
organisations who have
made outstanding
achievements in different
areas. It is one of the
most respected awards in
the world. Malala shares
this year’s award with
Kailash Satyarthi, from
India, who has worked for
children’s rights and
against child slavery.