[Music] wow the shipwrecks in our Great Lakes are incredible I wonder what it would have been like to sail on one oh my goodness I'm Miss Cara and today we're going to learn about text features in news articles my friend media literacy Maddie is here to help us while I go change into some dry clothes hello Scholars today we're going to take a look at an article written about a great lake shipwreck to help you become more familiar with the text features of a news article some of your families might still get a newspaper delivered to your home but most people are reading their news digitally these days I love the newspaper the headlines the photographs the interviews such a great information about important stories that impact our communities you probably don't want to watch me read hey media literacy Maddie we need your help teaching our Scholars about the important text features of a news article in order to guide their reading of the article well let's get started the article we're going to look at is called Michigan researchers find 1914 shipwrecks in Lake Superior if you were reading a book this would be called a title however in journalism this is called a headline the headline is used to attract the audience's attention did you notice that the font style is bold here's another article do you see the headline usually the headline is short and it summarizes what the article is about do you have a piece of paper and pencil handy write a short headline about something you saw outside the window of your house great work everyone my headline was Miss Cara finds invasive spes oh great miss Cara nice this article has a photograph or a picture of the ship's Hall it has some letters that I can't see very well but when I read the article I found out right here that the letters are the name of the boat the Seldon e Marvin this link takes you to a video with more information about the Shipwreck important text feature of a news article is the writer of it in journalism the writer is given a by line Kathleen Foody of the Associated Press wrote this article and has the B by line my by line is Miss Cara rewrite Roar Scholars do you still have your paper and pencil nearby what would your by line be if you were writing a news article as you read through the article you'll notice there are sentences with quotation marks around them quotes show us exactly what an expert on the topic says for example this quote from Corey Atkins says one of the things that makes us proud when we discover these things is helping piece the puzzle together of what happened to these 28 people quotes are very important to news articles because they can provide information direct insight and perspective by the people involved in the story we've learned so much today about reading a news article Scholars before you go can you get another piece of paper and draw out the text features of a news article like I did today we learned how to read a news article by analyzing its text features headline by line quotes and photograph be on the lookout for these text features the next time you are reading a news article [Music]