Newsletter

Writing
Publish a Multimodal Informational Text
(Newsletter) for One’s Purpose and
Target Audience
English 7
Quarter 3 Week 6
 Local, Regional, and
National
Integration
Celebrations/Holidays
 Learning Objectives
Learning Competency
Publish a multimodal informational text (newsletter) for one’s purpose and
target audience

EN7INF-III-14 Identify the text type appropriate for one’s topic, purpose, and
target audience.
EN7INF-III-15 Organize significant information using various techniques.
EN7INF-III-16 Determine one’s thesis as the central idea of the paper.
EN7INF-III-17 Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.

Learning Objectives
1. Pre-writing a. Identify topics and sources appropriate for the purpose and
target audience of the newsletter
2. Drafting
a. Organize significant information in the newsletter.
b. Apply multimodal elements in presenting information.
Short Review
What do you remember from Lessons 1 and 2? Let’s travel back and
recall our key understandings.
Short Review
What do you remember from Lessons 1 and 2? Let’s travel back and
recall our key understandings.
 In the next three weeks, we will be
applying what we have learned
from the past lessons. We will write
expository and journalistic texts
and put them together in a
newsletter.
To do this, we need to review what
expository and journalistic texts
are. Then, we will learn what a
newsletter is and what its purpose
is. We will then make a two-page
 Let’s start by recalling what we
already know about expository
texts. Perhaps, a good way to do
this is by comparing expository texts
with narrative texts.
Narrative Expositor
Text y
Text
Lesson Purpose
Think of the story “My Father Goes to Court” by Carlos Bulosan, which
is an example of a narrative text. Now, compare it with the expository
text that you read in #PHTravel: Sinulog, Ati-atihan, and Dinagyang,
or IP Games return to Palawan. Write their similarities and differences
in the Venn diagram.

“My Father #PHTravel:

Goes to Sinulog, Ati-
Court” atihan, and
Dinagyang
 NARRATIVE TEXT EXPOSITORY TEXT

- provides information, explanation or

direction
- tells a story - author’s purpose is to inform or
- has action explain
- author’s purpose is to entertain - has a main idea (thesis)
- has conflict and dialogue - structure: sequence, comparison and
contrast, problem and solution, cause
- has a beginning, middle and end
and effect
 One of the articles that you will put in your
newsletter is an expository text. You may
choose between sequencing, or comparison
and contrast.
To recall, in Lesson 1, we wrote an essay
comparing and contrasting Ati-Atihan and
Dinagyang Festivals using the Point-by-Point
Method. In this activity you may choose one
of the following:
1. compare and contrast Sinulog and a
festival in your locality using either block or
point-by-point method
2. write an essay comparing and contrasting
 The second type of article that
you will include in your newsletter
is a journalistic text. This includes
one or two news articles about
current events in your school or
local community.
Unlocking Vocabulary using an
Example/Picture
Below are words/phrases that we need to understand for this lesson.
Match the pictures that refer to these words or phrases by labeling
the pictures correctly. The first one is done as your guide or sample.
Unlocking Vocabulary using an
Example/Picture
 Pre-writing
and Drafting
 Recall the steps in the Writing
Process in the previous quarter.
For the next three weeks, you will
again apply these steps as you
work on your newsletter.
Steps in the Writing Process:
1. Pre-writing
2. Drafting
3. Revising
4. Editing
5. Publishing
Worked Example
For the final task of this quarter, you
will be assigned to groups having six
members. Three of you may choose to
write a comparison and contrast essay.
The other three may choose to write a
news report.
Worked Example

A. Writing the
Comparison and
Contrast Expository
Essay
Worked Example
A. Writing the Comparison and Contrast Expository Essay
1. To start your essay, you may put together ideas about
your local festival so you can compare it with Sinulog in
terms of the following: origin of the name of the festival,
history, highlights of the activities during the festival as
stated in the Sinulog essay in Lesson 1.
Worked Example
2. Another pre-writing strategy for comparison and contrast is
through outlining or table form.
A. Below is a sample outline: Sinulog vs. (Name of your festival)
I. Introduction
You may do one of the following:
- Attract the reader’s attention by asking a question. (Example: Have you
heard of….?)
- Provide background information about your topic.(Example: Filipinos kick
off the year on an energetic note with 3 major festivals in the month of
January)
- State the main idea. (Example: Sinulog and (insert name of your festival)
differ in many ways. However, they share a lot of similarities in terms of the
origin of the name of the festival, history, and highlights of the activities
during the festival.
Worked Example
2. Another pre-writing strategy for comparison and contrast is
through outlining or table form.
A. Below is a sample outline: Sinulog vs. (Name of your festival)

II. Body of the essay

A. Origin of the name of the festival
B. History
C. Highlights of the activities during the festival
Worked Example
2. Another pre-writing strategy for comparison and contrast is
through outlining or table form.
A. Below is a sample outline: Sinulog vs. (Name of your festival)

III. Conclusion You may do one of the following:

- Summarize the similarities and differences in one to two
sentences.
- Paraphrase the main idea mentioned in the introduction.
- Answer the question that you asked in the introduction.
Worked Example
2. Another pre-writing strategy for comparison and contrast is
through outlining or table form.
B. Below is a Similarity and Difference Table
Worked Example

B. Writing the
Journalistic Text
 Remember the news
report that you read in
Lesson 2? Guess what?
You will be writing a news
report. But first, let’s
learn the basic parts of a
news report.
 In summary,
news reports
are usually
written in
inverted
pyramid form.
Please remember that there
are specific rules or
guidelines that you need to
follow in writing a news
report. Here are the most
commonly used rules.
 Guidelines for Headline
Writing

1. The ideal headline is 5-10 words only. It must

capture the readers’ attention.
 Guidelines for Headline
Writing
2. The headline is always written in the simple present
to indicate present or past events. For example, IP
Games return to Palawan, the verb “return” is in
the present tense even if the event has already taken
place. If the IP Games are still expected to happen in
Palawan, the verb tense is “to + base form”. For
example, in IP Games to return to Palawan next
year, “to return” means “will return”.
 Guidelines for Headline
Writing
3. It should be written in the active voice
and should not begin with the verb. For
example, IP Games return to Palawan.
This is in the active voice because IP Games is
also the doer of the action, “return”.
 Guidelines for Headline
Writing
4. Do not use conjunctions such as “and or like.
For example, if the headline is “Palawan to host IP
and Modern Games during National Palaro 2024”.
Instead of the conjunction “and”, we use comma (,)
so the correct headline is “Palawan to host IP,
Modern Games in National Palaro 2024.”
Note also that we substitute “during” with the
shorter word “in”.
 Guidelines for Headline
Writing
5. Capitalize the first letter of the first word and the
first letter of all proper nouns. For example, in “IP
Games to return to Palawan next year” IP is capitalized
because is it an acronym for Indigenous People which
is a proper for a specific name of a group. G in Games
is also capitalized because it refers to the specific name
of the games which is IP Games. Palawan is a specific
name of a place so P is capitalized. But the rest are in
small letters.
 And now that you already
know the common rules,
you can now apply them as
you write your news report.
Below are the steps that
you will follow in writing
your news report.
 Steps in Writing a News
Report
Step 1:
Identify the newsworthy event that you will write about.
These are events that you believe are important or are
interesting for your readers.
 Steps in Writing a News
Report
Step 1:
Identify the newsworthy event that you will write about.
These are events that you believe are important or are
interesting for your readers.

Then, complete the table below by gathering the needed

information about your selected event.
Steps in Writing a News
Report
 Steps in Writing a News
Report
Step 2: Compile needed facts.

The statements are

verifiable by truthful
accounts (figures, dates,
statistical reports, research
findings, etc.).
 Steps in Writing a News
Report
Step 3: Write your news article

A. Write your lead. Alternatively, you may write the lead

after you have written the whole story.
B. Write the news report using the inverted pyramid
format.
Steps in Writing a News
Report

Step 4: Submit your paper

to your groupmates for
peer revising and editing
 Steps in Writing a News
Report

Step 5: Revise and edit the news

report based on the classmate’s
suggestions.
 Steps in Writing a News
Report

Step 6: Add the news report to the

newsletter following the rules in
layouting a newsletter.
Lesson Activity
A. Writing the Comparison and Contrast Expository
Essay
1. Prewriting

Choose the pre-writing activity (using Venn diagram,

outline, or table) that you will use to present the
information gathered for your essay.
A. Writing the Comparison and Contrast Expository
Essay
2. Drafting
Based on your prewriting output, you may now write
your comparison and contrast expository essay on
Sinulog and your local festival. Please remember to use
the appropriate transition markers for comparing and
contrasting as mentioned in Lesson 1 (Examples: also,
like, similarly, although, in contrast, but, however,
while, unlike).
 B. Writing the Journalistic
Text
1. Prewriting

Follow Steps 1 and 2 in the Steps in Writing a News

Report.

2. Drafting

Follow Step 3 in writing a news report. Then, prepare to

have your work reviewed by your other groupmates.
byline
 Learners’
Takeaways
Complete the table below by listing down activities that made
pre writing and drafting easy and/or challenging.
Reflection on Learning
Work with a partner and share similarities and
differences with your answers from the Learners’
Takeaways Activity. Reflect especially on how you
could make the challenging parts easier the next time
you work on a similar task.
Share your insights in a bigger
group.
 Formative
Assessment
A. Headline Writing. Write TRUE if the statement is
correct; otherwise, change the underlined word(s) to
make it correct.
1. The ideal headline is 5-10 words only.
2. Headlines are written using the simple past tense
to indicate both present and past events
3. Headlines are written in the passive voice and must
not begin with a verb.
4. Commas are used instead of conjunctions.
5. All nouns are capitalized, together with the first
letter of the first word of the headline.
B. Pre-writing for Comparison and Contrast
Essays

Give the three strategies/tools that you can use in the

pre-writing step when writing a comparison and
contrast essay. 1. _________________
2. _________________
3. _________________
C. Parts of a News
Report
After the headline and byline, the news report follows the
inverted pyramid. Give the three (3) parts of an inverted pyramid
in correct sequence.
1. _________________
2. _________________
3. _________________
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es
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