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Step 4 Be A Reporter (The 5 W's and An H)

The document provides guidance on using the "Be a Reporter" strategy to effectively take notes from websites. It explains that reporters use the "5 Ws and an H" - who, what, when, where, why, and how - as a framework for asking questions about information to pull out the key facts. The strategy has the reader ask these questions of a website and write down the answers, which will serve as an organized set of notes capturing the most important details for later review. Practicing this approach of questioning like a reporter can help hone the ability to identify and record only the salient points from lengthy online sources.

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Step 4 Be A Reporter (The 5 W's and An H)

The document provides guidance on using the "Be a Reporter" strategy to effectively take notes from websites. It explains that reporters use the "5 Ws and an H" - who, what, when, where, why, and how - as a framework for asking questions about information to pull out the key facts. The strategy has the reader ask these questions of a website and write down the answers, which will serve as an organized set of notes capturing the most important details for later review. Practicing this approach of questioning like a reporter can help hone the ability to identify and record only the salient points from lengthy online sources.

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Step 4

Be A Reporter
(The 5 Ws
And An H)
Background
Imagine you are working on a poetry
report for Language Arts. You have
found some great web sites with
definitions, examples and pictures.
The web pages are very long, and you
wont remember all of it when you get
back to class to work on it. So, you
need to pull out just the facts. Here
are some tips on how to do this.
Objective
By the end of this lesson you will know
that:
The Be A Reporter strategy can help in
writing notes and recording findings from a
web site.
Not all information on a web page is helpful,
some of it can be ignored (omitted.)
Referencing is a very important part of a
search.
Lesson
Being a reporter or detective is a tough
job, you need to be alert, and ask good
questions.
By asking good questions
and reading you will be able
to find out A LOT of good
information.
Reporters use the 5 Ws and the H, all the time to
ask questions. These 6 questions are THE most
helpful ones to ask yourself when reading.
Who
What
When
Where
Why

How
The 5 Ws and the H
Take the time to ask questions,
then be sure to make the time to answer them.
How this works is when you find a good
web site, you need to find the answers to
the 5 Ws and an H as you read.

By doing this, you are pushing yourself to
find meaning in the reading and pull out
the important information.
While you are looking at the web site,
ask yourself the question:
Who worked on the web site (authors)?
Who is the author talking about or to (if any)?
Who is the web site built for?
Who
Write your answers down, these will become your notes.
WHO
What question was the author answering?
What is the the main idea for the web site (title)?
What new things did you learn?
What
Your answers, are the notes that will help you
remember what is important.
WHAT
When was the web page published (updated)?
When is the important event happening?
When
Your notes will be a study guide, as they are the most
important pieces of information.
WHEN
Where is the main character or writer from?
Where is the action taking place?
Where are the headings and titles?
Where
WHERE
Why did you select this web site?
Why is the important event happening
Why.
Your notes will follow you when you go back to the
classroom, so write down ONLY what is important (the
answers to the questions.)
WHY
How did it happen?
How did they do that?
How did the story end?
How
HOW
And last, but not least ask questions
which contain:
Were you a good reporter, did you get answers
to all of your questions?
Find out by looking at your
notes and see if they make
sense. Do you have all the
important points written down?

If not, go back and get the
answers.
Lets Review
By asking questions like a reporter, we can
pull the important facts from a web site.
The 5 Ws and an H are helpful starting points
for your questions.
Your answers become the review (study)
notes of the web site.
Be sure to reference the web site you were
looking at for answers.
Remember the more you practice the
faster and easier this process will
become. Go complete Activity Sheet 4.

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