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Activity 12

• When students are inferring,
allow all kinds of guesses
even if they are not precise. It
is important to develop your
students’ creativity and out-of-
the-box thinking skills.
• The first paragraph is the lead.
While the purpose of the lead
is to answer the Five W’s, this is
not always the case. Reporters
may vary where they answer the
questions, in order to improve
legibility and impact. Moreover,
not all pieces of news have all
the questions answered.
• This is a reading strategy, as
such, it is important to reuse it
as many times as possible, since
reading between the lines is one
of the aspects that distinguishes
a good reader.

Activity 13
• One possible extension of
this activity, if the time allotted
allows, is to focus on the effect of
different graphic resources. The
position and letter size is one of
the giveaways in journalism. Top
stories are so called because
they are usually put at the top of the webpage or front page (because of the way we read: from top to
bottom), and usually in the center (because journals tend to be created in an orbital shape, first the stories
at the center of the field of vision, then towards the periphery).
• Journals tend to have two formats: the classic spreadsheet format, in which case it is folded, and tabloid
format, more or less equivalent to twice a letter-size page. One-column papers are more common in digital
journals, while two columns (or even more) is the usual standard in printed journals.

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