Lesson Plan
The Five W's of Notetaking
Thinking about who, what, when, where, and why isn’t just for detectives! Students will practice gleaning important information from texts using these questions and a few other tools.
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to read a text and take notes about the important people, places, and events described.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Call students together.
- Show students the newspaper.
- Explain to students that journalists try to answer the 5Ws when writing their stories. Ask if any students know what these are. If not, explain to students that these are: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.
- Read one of the newspaper stories. Ask students if they can identify the answers to these questions. At the end, do students know who was important? What was happening? When it was happening? And why it was happening?
- Explain to students that one way of taking notes and getting the important information out of a story is recording the answers to these questions like journalists.