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Understanding Text Structures:

Understanding Text Structures:. A Newspaper Article. Structure and Purpose of a Newspaper Article.

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Understanding Text Structures:

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  1. Understanding Text Structures: A Newspaper Article

  2. Structure and Purpose of a Newspaper Article • The purpose of a newspaper article is to give you factual information about current events. A good informational article in a newspaper provides detailed answers to the questions who? What? When? Where? Why? And How?

  3. The Inverted Pyramid • The article begins witha summary lead (a sentence or paragraph that gives the main idea of the story.) It is followed by less important details of the article. Summary Lead Important Details Less important details

  4. Article Leads: • Some articles begin with a lead that simply grabs your interest in a topic. Such a lead does not summarize but instead describes an interesting situation or fact related to the story.

  5. Here are some additional elements in the structure of a news article: • Headline: the catchy boldface words that tell you what the article is about. • Take a look at the next slide and see if you can identify the headline.

  6. Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press Writer KEY WEST, Fla. — Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike. Officials in the Florida Keys planned to start a phased evacuation for residents Sunday morning after telling visitors a day earlier to get out. Ike, a dangerous Category 4 storm with winds early Sunday of near 135 mph, was forecast to affect the Keys starting Monday night on a potential track for the central Gulf. • Did you identify the headline?

  7. Subhead • The subhead contains additional boldface words in smaller type under the headline, which add details about the article.

  8. Can you find the subhead in this article? Another Upset East Carolina stuns No. 8 WVU 24-3 by JOEDY McCREARY GREENVILLE, N.C. — Skip Holtz followed his biggest coaching victory at East Carolina with an even more impressive one. Jonathan Williams had two short touchdown runs, quarterback Patrick Pinkney was nearly perfect and the Pirates routed No. 8 West Virginia 24-3 on Saturday for their third straight win over a ranked team.

  9. Byline • The byline is the name of the reporter who wrote the article: Another Upset East Carolina stuns No. 8 WVU 24-3 by JOEDY McCREARY GREENVILLE, N.C. — Skip Holtz followed his biggest coaching victory at East Carolina with an even more impressive one. Jonathan Williams had two short touchdown runs, quarterback Patrick Pinkney was nearly perfect and the Pirates routed No. 8 West Virginia 24-3 on Saturday for their third straight win over a ranked team.

  10. Dateline • The dateline is the location where the article was reported and the date when the information was reported.

  11. Tone • Tone is the choice of words and point of view that meet the interests of the newspaper’s audience. Tone often depends on the subject. Some articles are light, lively, and humorous; others are serious and straightforward.

  12. How many structural elements can you find in the article below? Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: September 6, 2008 Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. On the Dot Earth blog, Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits. Join the discussion. By many expert accounts, this is the first time the Northwest Passage over North America and the Northern Sea Route over Europe and Asia have been open simultaneously in at least half a century, if not longer. While currents and winds play a role, experts say, the expanding open water in the far nort provides the latest evidence that the Arctic Ocean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming during the summers into more of an open ocean.

  13. How did you do? Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say(Headline) By ANDREW C. REVKIN(Byline) Published: September 6, 2008 (Dateline) Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of The cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. (Lead) On the Dot Earth blog, Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits. Join the discussion. By many expert accounts, this is the first time the Northwest Passage over North America and the Northern Sea Route over Europe and Asia have been open simultaneously in at least half a century, if not longer. While currents and winds play a role, experts say, the expanding open water in the far north provides the latest evidence that the Arctic Ocean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming during the summers into more of an open ocean.

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