The Daily Meow Newspaper

The Daily Meow is an animal fantasy story with a series of fictional newspaper reports. Some of the headlines of reports in The Daily Meow newspaper include: Cat Robber Raids Again, Tiger Trio at Cat Concert, and Flu Hits Fat Cats. The story includes text features like headlines, columns of type, news flashes, and symbols.

The Daily Meow is designed as a series of seven newspaper reports. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text by visually showing what the different columns are talking about. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the headlines, graphics, style, font, and text highlighters as well as the information, layout, and design of the reports. There is an infographic at the end of the story outlining the purpose and procedures for designing a newspaper report. An activity on designing a report for a specific newspaper is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as nouns (shopkeeper), verbs (snatch), and singular/plural (tail/tails). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Marmalade’s clean fur) and apostrophes within contractions (don’t). Focus on short and long vowel e, the suffix ful (wonderful), and base words (waving).

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