Novel News is a culminating group activity that can be used with most novels. Students use the information they have learned through reading a novel and doing other associated activities to create a newspaper about the people, places, issues, and events that make up the novel.
Students use publication software to create the newsletter.
To compose the newspaper, students use the novel's content. For example, students might take the role of a character and write to an advice columnist about a problem. Another student might respond to the letter as an advice columnist would. An automobile accident occurring in their novel might become the subject of a hard news article. In creating the newspaper, students explore newspaper forms, develop proficiency using publication software, and deepen their understanding of the novel they have read.