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Critical Analysis: Feature Article

• The Feature Story-Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
  Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story and to write a profile of a classmate, with a particular focus on a talent, interest, or passion of that classmate.
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=987
• Feature Articles
  This lesson details what is a feature article is, and the process of writing one.
  http://www.teachwriting.com/FeatureArticles.htm
• Tasty Topics: Developing Narrative Feature Articles
  In this lesson, students explore the concepts and content necessary to write narrative feature articles and then develop their own such articles.
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20060525thursday.html
• Young People's Press: Writing A Feature Story (pdf)
  In this printable lesson, students learn how to analyze, write, revise, and review a feature article.
  http://www.ypp.net/pdfs_writersguide/unit4.pdf
• Right on Time?
  In this lesson students share their reactions to hearing a false rumor. They then research and write an article about a current news item affecting their school.
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20060106friday.html
• Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story (pdf)
  Using this student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, students answer several questions and complete a checklist to review feature stories written by their peers.
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson987/Reader_ReviewerResponseSheet.pdf

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