Locating news and scanning for information You will visit two websites to locate

information and answer some questions

You will report to the class about some of the stories

You will subscribe to a newsletter, and

You will read a ‘success’ story written about some local kids.

A. Carlton community website: http://www.carlton.vic.auhttp://www.carlton.vic.au

Explore the Pages for:

About Carlton

Latest news

Events

Prepare to tell the class some information about two different topics.

B. Scan the news stories

Which 3 items are of interest to you? Why?

Which item is about:

• Neighbourhood security

• Educational access for disadvantaged people

• Migrants from one particular country

• A program to improve the appearance of public transport infrastructure?

C. Places to go for more resources

• Subscribe to the Carlton community newsletter by email

• Go to the Melbourne Leader newspaper online and scan the top 3 news stories - what are they about?

D.D. Melbourne Leader newspaper onlineMelbourne Leader newspaper online

• How many different sections or menus are there?

• What is the web address?

• How can you subscribe by email?

E. Melbourne Leader news story

Find:

Headline

Author

Caption

Lead paragraph

Where to make the text bigger