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Learn the principles of crafting compelling headlines for news articles. Discover key techniques for creating impactful headlines that grab readers' attention and convey the essence of the story effectively. Enhance your headline-writing skills with practical tips and examples.

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  1. Quick Review

  2. If you had to write a newspaper headline for your weekend, what would it be?

  3. Google Saves Toddler’s Life (and Marriage) Hamilton Rules Broadway Bandaid or Stitches? Award Winning Family Takes Prize

  4. What is a Headline?

  5. Nazi Germany surrenders Declaring Alaska’s statehood Prohibition 1940’s “War of the Worlds” Before first stock market crash

  6. How to Write a Headline Headlines are usually written in bold and in a much larger size than the article text. Front page headlines are often in upper case so that they can be easily read by the passing, potential customer. It is also key for headlines to be short and to the point!

  7. Today’s Headlines • http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ • http://www.newsy.com/ • http://www.nytimes.com/ • http://www.usnews.com/ • .

  8. This is dialogue from the movie The Shipping Newswhere the publisher is explaining to a new reporter how to create an effective headline… Publisher: It's finding the center of your story, the beating heart of it, that's what makes a reporter. You have to start by making up some headlines. You know: short, punchy, dramatic headlines. Now, have a look, [pointing at dark clouds gathering in the sky over the ocean] what do you see? Tell me the headline. Reporter: HORIZON FILLS WITH DARK CLOUDS? Publisher: IMMINENT STORM THREATENS VILLAGE. Protagonist: But what if no storm comes? Publisher: VILLAGE SPARED FROM DEADLY STORM.

  9. Your Assignment…

  10. Day 2 Read the passage from White Fang and answer the question.

  11. Your Turn…

  12. TODAY’S ACTIVITY Writing Headlines and Creating a Newspaper Rubric

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