0601'6'9 Use text features to locate information and make meaning from text e'g', headings, key wor

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WRITING CAPTIONS

• ? 0601.6.9 Use text features to locate
  information and make meaning from text (e.g.,
  headings, key words, captions, tables of
  contents, footnotes, illustrations). 
• ? 0601.3.10 Use accurate and precise language to
  convey meaning.
• SPI 0601.7.3 Identify the purpose of a medium
  (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to
  describe). 
• SPI 0601.7.4 Draw an inference from a non-print
  medium. 
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WHAT IS A CAPTION?

• A caption is a short explanation or description
  of a picture located near the picture.
• It can be on either side of the picture, above
  the picture, or below the picture.
• The information included in a caption is very
  detailed and specific, but short and to the
  point. A caption doesnt always tell the whole
  story. A caption often accompanies a story.

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EXAMPLE OF A CAPTION
Cast members Robert Pattinson and Kristen
Stewart attend the premiere of the movie
"Twilight" at the Mann Village and Bruin theatres
in Westwood, California November 17, 2008. The
movie is based on the novel of the same name by
Stephenie Meyer and opens in the U.S. on November
21.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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WHERE CAN YOU SEE CAPTIONS?

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Internet
• Books
• TV
• most print material
• that has pictures

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WHY ARE CAPTIONS IMPORTANT?

• Captions describe what the reader sees in front
  of him/her.
• People look at headlines and pictures to decide
  what they want to read in the newspaper. If a
  picture grasps their attention, they will read
  the caption. If the caption is interesting to
  them, they will read the article.
• Captions are another way to tell the news.
• Captions add color and make the newspaper more
  interesting.
• Captions can also show emotion.

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THE FIVE W'S and H!
WHAT SHOULD A CAPTION INCLUDE?

• Who is in the picture? (if 1-5 people, list
  names from left to right)
• Where was the picture taken?
• What is happening in the picture? What happened
  before or after the picture was taken?
• When did this happen?
• Why did this happen? Why is this picture
  important?
• How did this happen?

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TIPS FOR WRITING CAPTIONS

• Dont state the obvious. Give some information
  that the reader may not know.
• If a caption is included with a full story or
  article, keep it short, only 1-2 sentences.
• If a caption stands alone, without a story or
  article, 3-5 sentences would be appropriate.
• Dont assume anything, especially if a picture
  includes animals. You dont know what someone
  else or something is thinking!

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ANALYZE

• The following 5 slides are examples of
  captions. Check to see if each caption answers
  the five Ws and H and if it is detailed but
  short.

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• Kyle Busch waves the checkered flag to the crowd
  after winning the NASCAR Nextel Cup Food City 500
  race in Bristol, Tenn. in 2009.

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• A South Korean conservative activist holds
  pictures of US journalists Laura Ling and Euna
  Lee during a rally denouncing the North's
  detention of the journalists in Seoul on June 4,
  2009.

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• Tiger Woods celebrates after chipping in for
  eagle on the 11th hole during the final round of
  the Memorial golf tournament on Sunday in Dublin,
  Ohio. Woods won the event.

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• In Mexico City in May, a student wore a mask
  to protect himself against swine flu.

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• Onlookers and would-be rescuers survey 65
  long-finned pilot whales lying dead on Monday on
  Rheban Beach, east of Hobart, Australia, after a
  mass stranding on Sunday. Normally at home in
  deep oceanic waters, the thin, black-skinned
  four-metre whales were out of their usual habitat
  when 150 became stranded on two beaches on the
  southern island state of Tasmania. Rescuers saved
  40.

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ASSIGNMENT

• You will now use the worksheet (dont forget to
  write your name on your paper!) to write your own
  captions for the rest of the pictures in this
  PowerPoint. Remember to use everything you have
  learned!

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