'Ethical Electronics' Reading Comprehension

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FairPhone and World’s Deepest Shipwreck Newspaper Article Comprehension and Creative Writing

This is a two-part lesson whereby Part One is a comprehension worksheet about a newspaper article around ‘ethical electronics’. Students are encouraged to answer comprehension questions, as well as quote from the text to justify answers. Furthermore, the question sheet explores word classes and common spelling mistakes (e.g fair and fare).

Part Two is for students to complete the news article about a piece called ‘Word’s Deepest Shipwrecked Filmed’. Here they answer some simple comprehension questions and infer meaning about what could be involved in the article. A first person account is also provided, and the ss are encouraged to quote from this first person account to enrich their own version of the story.

In sum, the two lessons cover:

Comprehension, using information from a source to back up a description, using first person accounts to enrich a creative writing task to write their own newspaper article.

Included:

Newspaper article (formatted as a newspaper with illustrations).

Blank template to complete the creative writing task.

Students’ question sheet

Teacher’s answer key (with some expansion suggestions for certain questions).