Biographies Magazine Article Checklist — Elementary

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Our article is only about one important idea about the person.

We describe what is important and interesting about the person.

We have many specific details about the person.

We choose the details we use carefully to tell what is important about the person.

We use some of the person’s own words and we put them in quotation marks.

We use words that paint a picture of the person.

We start our article with an introduction that makes people curious about the person.

We give our article a title that makes people curious and want to read it

We proofread our article to correct any mistakes in

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We took a good, clear picture of the person with the digital camera.

Our friends, our family, and the students in our writing group gave us at least 2 ideas about what we could do to make our article better besides correcting mistakes.

We give our article a title that makes people curious and want to read it