Writing Activities Conduct an Interview Create a Newspaper Upper Elementary

Celebrate school heroes and teach writing standards at the same time! In this resource, students choose a school employee they admire, develop an interview plan, interview them, and then work in small groups to publish a small newspaper about school heroes. You'll build school community and also build student writing skills.

The lesson is made up of three activities that can be done over a series of class periods. You'll get everything you need to make a great experience for your students without a lot of preparation on your part.

You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, and rubrics. The teacher directions are so detailed! You will have very clear, step-by-step instructions for what to do to teach the activity.

This interview and newspaper writing resource is perfect for:

✍Fourth Grade

✍Fifth Grade

✍Sixth Grade

Included in this Persuasive Writing Resource:

✅ Teacher instructions and ideas so you'll know exactly what to do

✅ School Hero Writing Template
✅ Questions and Answers Template

✅ Multiple Newspaper Templates

✅ Student instructions
✅ Rubric for evaluating the research and the newspaper

Learn More about the School Hero Newspaper Writing Activities!

⭐ SCHOOL HERO: In this activity, students will work independently to think about somoene who works at their school whom they admire. They will discuss and develop questions to conduct an interview with this person.

⭐ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: In this activity, students will work with a partner to develop deep and thoughtful questions to use to interview the shcool hero they have chose. They'll conduct an interview with this person using the questions they drafted.

⭐ CREATE A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: Students will collaborate in groups to bring all of their interview work together. They'll choose newspaper templates and put together a newspaper and choose a title.

⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐

This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on these traits:

☀️ Curiosity - the desire to seek knowledge and information

☀️ Flexibility - the ability to take different approaches and generate alternate ideas

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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