Editorials
Compiled by Rebecca Melton and Jeri Cay Phillips   4/2005

Do you have what it takes?

What's black and white and read all over?

Give up?.......a newspaper, a sun burned zebra, a sunburned penquin

In this quest you will learn how to write an editorial that speaks to an audience and has voice.

What does that mean?

That means that you will write with passion (feeling) and you will write with your audience in mind. Your audience is the people that will read your editorial.

How Do You Write Those?

 You will go through the following links step by step. When you finish you will be able to write an editorial.

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First of all remember that an editorial should have these four things:

1.  an opinion

2.  reasons for that opinion

3.  facts that support that opinion

4.  suggestions for dealing with that topic

OK, enough fooling around. It's time to get started with the work of writing an editorial. Start with lesson one and keep moving through.

 Come on, let's give it a go, let your writer's passion come out! You can do it!!!

Start with this essential question:

What do you feel passionate about?

Lesson One:     What Irks You?

Lesson Two:     Explaining Your List

Lesson Three:   Editorial Parts

Lesson Four:     Positive, Negative, Neutral

Lesson Five:     Responding to Editorial

Lesson Six:      Choosing a Topic

Lesson Seven:   More Editorial Parts

Lesson Eight:    Organizing

Lesson Nine:    Drafting

Lesson Ten:     Revising

Lesson Eleven:   Editing

Lesson Twelve:  Publishing

Teachers:

Below are some links you will need. You should also start collecting some editorials from magazines and newspapers that are kid friendly. Also, have students bring in editorials that they find.

Editorial Charts      Editors Evaluation Sheet     Revision Evaluation Sheet