LESSON 30 TEACHER’S GUIDE
Making a Newspaper
by Samantha Rabe
Fountas-Pinnell Level M
Informational Text
Selection Summary
Printing a newspaper in the 1700s involved hard work. Type was
hand set. The letters were inked and paper was pressed onto the ink
by a printing press. Today, text is typed on computers. Computer
technology is used to print modern newspapers.
Number of Words: 317
Characteristics of the Text
Genre
Text Structure
Content
Themes and Ideas
Language and
Literary Features
Sentence Complexity
Vocabulary
Words
Illustrations
Book and Print Features
• Informational text
• Focused on a single topic: producing a newspaper in the past and present
• Organized into a few simple categories
• Underlying compare-and-contrast text structure
• Newspapers of the 1700s and today
• Newspaper contents
• Printing methods of the 1700s and today
• Newspaper printing methods have changed since the 1700s, but newspapers still serve
the same purpose: to provide the news.
• New technologies have made newspaper printing easier and faster.
• Clear, straightforward language
• Exclamations
• Repetition
• A mix of short and more complex sentences
• Multiple items in series: There are stories, essays, and ads.
• Content-specific terms: type (n.), printing press, computer technology
• Words with suffixes: quicker, easier, quickly, easily
• Historical illustrations
• Pages from newspapers of the past
• Photos that support the text
• Predictable placement of text
• Identifying labels on photos and illustrations
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Making a Newspaper
by Samantha Rabe
Build Background
Help children use their knowledge of newspapers to visualize the book. Build interest by
asking questions such as the following: Why do people read newspapers? How do you
think newspapers of the past were different? Read the title and author and talk about the
cover illustration. Tell children that this book gives factual information about newspapers
of the past and present.
Introduce the Text
Guide children through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar
language and vocabulary. Here are some suggestions:
Page 2: Remind children that illustrations and labels help readers understand text
information. Have children look at the illustration and read the label.
Suggested language: This picture shows a very old type of printing press. Printers
used presses like this to print ink on paper. Why would you need strong arms to
use this press?
Page 4: Direct attention to the newspaper advertisement. How can you tell that
this ad came from an old newspaper? Newspapers print ads in order to make large
amounts of money. Advertisers pay the papers a lot of money to run their ads.
Page 9: Explain that the woman in the photo is typing text for a newspaper on her
computer. Inventions like the computer have changed the way newspapers are
made. What other inventions have changed our lives? Name a modern invention
that you use everyday.
Now turn back to the beginning of the book and read to find out how newspapers
from the past and the present are alike and different.
Target Vocabulary
accomplishments – the things
that someone has achieved or
done successfully, p. 10
composed – put together notes
or words and wrote them
down
inventions – machines or objects
that someone has created for
the first time, p. 9
achieve – to succeed in doing
something after a lot of work
and effort
designed – planned the way
something should be made
and how it should look
remarkable – very uncommon or
impressive
amounts – the quantities, or how
much, of each item there is,
p. 4
Grade 2
2
result – something that happens
because of something else that
has happened, p. 6
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Read
Have children read silently while you listen to individual children read. Support their
problem solving and fluency as needed.
Remind children to use the Visualize Strategy
important events as they read.
and to stop to tell
Discuss and Revisit the Text
Personal Response
Invite children to share their personal responses to the book.
Suggested language: What did you find most interesting about how newspapers were put
together in the past?
Ways of Thinking
As you discuss the text, help children understand these points:
Thinking Within the Text
Thinking Beyond the Text
Thinking About the Text
• Printing newspapers in the
1700s was hard work done by
hand.
• Newspaper printing methods
have changed since the 1700s,
but newspapers today still serve
the same purpose: to provide the
news.
• The author includes lots of
details about newspaper printing
and how newspapers have
changed.
• Computer technology has
made newspaper printing in the
present faster and easier.
• Newspapers of the past and
present share many features,
such as stories, essays, and ads.
• New technologies have made
newspaper printing easier and
faster.
• People keep improving
technology through time.
• Labels help readers understand
what the photos and illustrations
show.
• Historical illustrations and
newspaper pages bring the past
to life.
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Choices for Further Support
• Fluency Invite children to choose a passage from the text and demonstrate phrased
fluent reading. Remind them to use punctuation as clues to when to pause or add
stress.
• Comprehension Based on your observations of the children’s reading and discussion,
revisit parts of the text to clarify or extend comprehension. Remind children to go
back to the text to support their ideas.
• Phonics/Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and word parts, using
examples from the text. Remind children that some verbs, such as pay, are irregular;
their past forms are not made by adding –ed: pay, paid, has/have paid. Have children
skim the text to find other examples of irregular verbs. Examples include took (take)
on page 5, hung (hang) on page 7, and make and made on page 9.
Grade 2
3
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Writing about Reading
Critical Thinking
Have children complete the Critical Thinking questions on BLM 30.7.
Responding
Have children complete the activities at the back of the book. Use the instruction below as
needed to reinforce or extend understanding of the comprehension skill.
Target Comprehension Skill
Compare and Contrast
Remind children that they can compare and
contrast by telling how two things are alike and different. Model the skill, using a “Think
Aloud” like the one below:
Think Aloud
You can use details in the book to look for what is alike and different with
newspapers in the 1700s and newspapers today. The first item in the
diagram on page 11 shows that newspapers in the 1700s did not have
photos. Newspapers today do have photos. You can add that under the
heading on the right. That is one way in which newspapers are different.
Practice the Skill
Have children create another Venn diagram to compare and contrast how many pages can
be printed in newspapers today and in the past.
Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the Text
Have children write a response to the prompt on page 6. Remind them that when they
think beyond the text, they use what they know and their own experience to think about
what happens in the story.
Assessment Prompts
• What does the word result mean in this sentence: “The result was a printed page of
newspaper”?
• Complete this sentence in your own words: This selection is mostly about
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Grade 2
4
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English Language Development
Reading Support In Introduce the Text on page 2, include as much practice as
needed to help children become familiar with the language structures of the book.
Vocabulary Provide assistance as needed with multisyllable words and terms that may
be difficult for children to decode, such as newspaper, essays, computers, and technology.
Oral Language Development
Check children’s comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches their English
proficiency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the child.
Beginning/Early Intermediate
Intermediate
Early Advanced/ Advanced
Speaker 1: What is the machine on the
cover?
Speaker 1: Why did newspapers in the
1700s have no photos?
Speaker 2: a printing press
Speaker 2: There were no cameras in
the 1700s.
Speaker 1: What inventions have
made newspaper printing today
quicker and easier?
Speaker 1: What is the man printing?
Speaker 2: a newspaper
Speaker 1: What did the printing press
do?
Speaker 2: It pressed paper against the
type.
Speaker 2: Computers, computer
technology, and new kinds of
printing presses have made
newspaper printing today faster
and easier than it was in the
1700s.
Lesson 30
Name
Date
Think About It
BLACKLINE MASTER 30.7
Making a Newspaper
Think About It
Read and answer the questions.
1. In the 1700s, what happened after printers finished
printing a page?
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Making Connections Less than 50 years ago, some cities
had more than 20 different daily newspapers. Now most
cities have only a few. Explain why you think this is so.
Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook.
Read directions to children.
Think About It
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Name
Date
Making a Newspaper
Thinking Beyond the Text
Think about the questions below. Then write your answer in one or two
paragraphs.
Imagine that a printer from the 1700s was able to see how newspapers are
printed today. How do you think he would feel? What might he say when he
saw a computer or a new kind of printing press?
Grade 2
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Lesson 30
Name
BLACKLINE MASTER 30.7
Date
Think About It
Making a Newspaper
Think About It
Read and answer the questions.
1. In the 1700s, what happened after printers finished
printing a page?
2. Do you think newspapers today are better than
newspapers in the past? Why or why not?
3. List two ways newspapers today are different from
newspapers in the past.
Making Connections Less than 50 years ago, some cities
had more than 20 different daily newspapers. Now most
cities have only a few. Explain why you think this is so.
Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook.
Grade 2
7
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Student
Lesson 30
Date
BLACKLINE MASTER 30.11
Making a Newspaper • LEVEL M
page
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Making a Newspaper
Running Record Form
Selection Text
Errors
Self-Corrections
Accuracy Rate
Total SelfCorrections
Printing a newspaper was
hard work during the 1700s.
Printers needed ink, paper,
and metal letters called type.
They needed a printing press, too.
Printing a newspaper took
a lot of time.
A printer might work 14 hours
a day.
3
Newspapers had lots of text.
Printers often copied stories
from other newspapers.
Comments:
(# words read
correctly/52 × 100)
%
Read word correctly
Code
✓
cat
Repeated word,
sentence, or phrase
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Omission
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cat
cat
Grade 2
Behavior
Error
0
0
1
8
Substitution
Code
cut
cat
1
Self-corrects
cut sc
cat
0
Insertion
the
1
Word told
T
cat
cat
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Error
1413677
Behavior
1
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