>As you complete each section of the graphic organizer, check the boxes to monitor your progress!
1. Lede
2. Press Release
3. Scientific Explanation
Credible Source
Optional: Additional Credible Source
Optional: Additional Credible Source
4. Experts and Stakeholders
Stakeholder
Optional: Expert
Optional: Class Survey
5. Closure
1. LEDEStart with the MOST interesting piece of information that relates to your article. This can be a fact, statistic, a question to the readers, an brief anecdote, etc.
2. Press Release
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Claims
(Write the parts of your summary that you plan to include in your article. You should choose only the highlights of your summary ~2-3 sentences).
Author’s Name:
Author’s Qualifications:
Name of institution/Organization:
Year of Publication:
3. Scientific Explanation
Should take up less than 1/3 of article.
Credible Source
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Claims
(Write the parts of your summary that you plan to include in your article. You should choose only the highlights of your summary ~1-3 sentences).
Author’s Name:
Author’s Qualifications:
Name of institution/Organization:
Year of Publication:
**Optional: Additional Credible Source
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Claims
(Write the parts of your summary that you plan to include in your article. You should choose only the highlights of your summary ~1-3 sentences).
Author’s Name:
Author’s Qualifications:
Name of institution/Organization:
Year of Publication:
**Optional: Additional Credible Source
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Claims
(Write the parts of your summary that you plan to include in your article. You should choose only the highlights of your summary ~1-3 sentences).
Author’s Name:
Author’s Qualifications:
Name of institution/Organization:
Year of Publication:
4. Experts and Stakeholders
Stakeholder
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Quotes
Interviewee’s Name:
I am interviewing him or her because…
**Optional: Expert
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Quotes
Interviewee’s Name:
I am interviewing him or her because…
**Optional: Class Survey
Attribution
(Fill in as many of the boxes below as you can about your source) / Results
Who you surveyed…
Question(s) you asked…
5. CLOSURE
End with a thought-provoking question for the reader, an area of the research that still needs explanation, a place readers can go to find out more, etc.