Category: Other

Tite: #31 Wants Ads, Advertisement or Brochure

Time Needed: Various
Room Arrangement: Cooperative Groups, Or Individual Desks or Tables
Materials: Research materials, papers, posters, or construction paper, crayons/markers/colored
pencils
Process/Directions: Give students a scoring guide, checklist or rubric for the want ad,
advertisement or brochure. Explain to them what they will be making, or show them an example.
Connect it to the lesson or unit you are teaching. Have students draw up a sketch on a piece of
paper, or come up with ideas. Have them come have a conference with you before starting to
create their actual article. When their ideas have been approved by you, they can begin. Choose
whether they will each create one, or do this is groups. When they are done, have them share
them and hang them in the room.
Example of when I would use this:
During a unit on westward expansion (Want Ad to move west)
While studying consumerism (advertisement)
While studying anything related to social studies such as a country (brochure)
Source: Common knowledge (but I got the idea for having them brainstorm before beginning
their want ad, from Erin Slater when I visited her class in April 2014)