Brainstorming Session to generate feature articles

Use the prompts below to encourage discussion of ideas for feature articles.

• Students could think about the prompts individually writing down any of their own ideas
• They could then be paired or put into slightly larger groups of three or four.
• Their ideas could then be shared with the class as a whole in a plenary style session.

Prompts to generate feature article ideas:

• What topics or issues are you interested in?
• Do any specific people, groups or organisations come into your mind in relation to this topic or issue?
• What aspect of this topic would you like to focus on?
• What do you think you could use as a hook or an angle?
• Have any ideas on what your main points might be and how you could order them?
• Who do you think you could speak to or interview in relation to any of the ideas you have?

Optional

You could now set a deadline for submission of a feature article which conforms to the competition rules.

Depending on your time constraints this can done within class time or as an independent assignment to be completed in their own time.