Most Seventh Grade language arts textbooks have a section on writing news stories. Make sure names are spelled correctly. Final Copy Have students keyboard their final copy and have others proofread. After it is ready for publishing, create a newspaper format on the word processor, and drop the final copies into it. You will have a set of articles for the class to read and enjoy.
Students are to turn in all rough drafts, all notes and a bibliography of pre activity readings.
Have the students as a group develop a rubric for a way of evaluating the final products before they start the final product. This way they can keep the group's expectations in mind while they are producing. On a scale of one to four, my students came up with criteria for each. By walking them through how to evaluate a product, they will see that there are criteria that people use to judge presentations, writing and other products. Perhaps a C or lower.