Newsletter Rubric Effects on the muscular or skeletal system due to

dehydration/starvation or other results of being held in a concentration

camp or being forced from your home due to a mass genocide.

Name______________________________ Topic_________________________
Category

Writing
Organization

Each section in the

newsletter has a
clear beginning,
middle, and end.

Writing
Grammar

There are no
grammatical
mistakes in the
newsletter.

Content Accuracy

All facts in the

newsletter are
accurate.

Attractiveness &
Organization

The newsletter has

exceptionally
attractive
formatting and
well-organized
information.
Careful and
accurate records
are kept to
document the
source of 95-100%
of the facts and
graphics in the
newsletter.

Almost all sections

of the newsletter
have a clear
beginning, middle
and end.
There are no
grammatical
mistakes in the
newsletter after
feedback from the
teacher
99-90% of the
facts in the
newsletter are
accurate.
The newsletter has
attractive
formatting and
well-organized
information.

Most of the
sections of the
newsletter have a
clear beginning,
middle and end
There are 1-2
grammatical
mistakes in the
newsletter even
after feedback
from the teacher.
89-80% of the
facts in the
newsletter are
accurate.
The newsletter has
well-organized
information.

Careful and
accurate records
are kept to
document the
source of 94-85%
of the facts and
graphics in the
newsletter.

Careful and
accurate records
are kept to
document the
source of 84-75%
of the facts and
graphics in the
newsletter.

Less than half of

the sections of the
newsletter have a
clear beginning,
middle and end.
There are several
grammatical
mistakes in the
newsletter even
after feedback
from the teacher.
Fewer than 80% of
the facts in the
newsletter are
accurate.
The newsletter's
formatting and
organization of
material are
confusing to the
reader.
Sources are not
documented
accurately or are
not kept on many
facts and
newsletter.

Sources

Total Score:________/20

Creating a
Newsletter
Lesson Objectives

Understand the
general layout of a
newsletter.

Creating a school newsletter with Publisher 2000 helps you organize

text and graphics. You can use a newsletter to communicate
information and ideas to students or to the community. Your students
can use the newsletter to develop skills in acquiring information,
organizing it, and communicating it to others.

Use the Newsletter

Wizard to create a
two-page layout.

Use the design

gallery to enhance
the newsletter
layout.

Because the newsletter can include various types of information, it is

an excellent tool for students to present research to teachers and
peers. Use the Newsletter Wizard to create a newsletter layout and add
different types of articles based on research your students have done
in and out of the classroom.

Insert a text file

and clip art into
existing frames.

Pre-publishing Activities

Review and edit

existing text,
including checking
your spelling.
Add a "drop cap"
to a story to add
visual interest.
Add or delete extra
pages.
Convert your
newsletter to a
Web page.

Identify newsworthy topics that focus on timeliness,

impact, and interest.

Discuss the different features of a newsletter, such as a

feature story, news story, advertisement, comic strip, letter to
the editor, and editorial.

Have students look at examples of journalistic writing

and discuss news writing style, concise wording, persuasion,
descriptive language, and tone.

Identify the audience for your newsletter, and what they

needs to know about your research and fundraising event. Write
with that goal in mind.

Discuss and gather information about a local current

event topic and have students write an editorial about it.

Use It!
Designing with the Newsletter
Wizard
The Publisher 2000 Newsletter Wizard helps you create a
professional looking layout for your newsletter. The
Newsletter Wizard takes you step-by-step through the
design process by asking you questions about layout, color
scheme, and printing.
This lesson will guide you through creating a four-page
newsletter with your own articles. You will be able to add
pages with various layout designs and add graphics with
captions that enhance your articles.

To use the Newsletter Wizard

1.

File menu.

If the Microsoft Publisher Catalog is not visible, click New on the

2.

Click the Publications by Wizard tab.

3.

In the Wizards pane, click Newsletters.

4.

Click Blends Newsletter and then click Start Wizard.

5.

Read the introduction, and then click Next.

6.

Select Mountain and then click Next.

7.

Select 2 Columns and then click Next.

8.

Select the No option and then click Next.

9.

Select the Other Address option and then click Next.

10.

Select the Double-Sided option and click Next.

11.

Select the Other Organizations option.

12.

Click Finish.

13.

Save your newsletter by clicking Save on the File menu.

Customizing your newsletter

Now that you've created the basic newsletter layout, you can drop in headlines,
articles, and clip art to customize your newsletter.

To enter information on the first page of your

newsletter
13. Zoom in on the publication in one of the following ways:

On the Standard toolbar at the top of the screen, click the plus sign (+) to zoom.

Click the Zoom drop-down box next to the plus and minus signs and then select a
magnification from the list.

Press F9.

14.

If you created a Personal Information set in the last lesson, the

Business Name should already be entered in the appropriate field. If you did not
create the Personal Information set, then refer to the "Creating a Calendar" lesson in
this guide to create the set.

15.

Click the placeholder text "Newsletter Title" and type Marine

Mammals Newsletter. AutoFit is activated, so the text will get smaller as you type to
fit in the text box.

16.

Click the placeholder text "Newsletter Date" in the upper-right

corner of the newsletter and then type Spring or the month your newsletter will be
published.

17.

Click the placeholder text "Lead Story Headline" and type Plan
to Save Whales Causes Controversy or the title of your lead story.

18.

Click the placeholder text below the Lead Story Headline. Type
your story into this frame or paste a story into the frame from Microsoft Word (or
other word-processor).

19.

Double-click the lead story graphic. When the Clip Gallery

appears, select a graphic appropriate to your story. For more information on selecting
graphics, see the "Getting Your Bearings" lesson earlier in this guide.

20.

Click the text "Secondary Story Headline" and type

Reestablishing whale pods or the title of your secondary story.

21.

Click the placeholder text below the Secondary Story Headline.

Type your story directly into this frame, or paste a story into the frame from Microsoft
Word (or other word-processor).

22.

In the "Inside this Issue" frame, click anywhere on the text

"Inside Story" and type the title of the next article you want in the newsletter. Add as
many stories as you plan to have in your newsletter.

23.

On the File menu, click Save to save the changes you have
made to your newsletter.

To insert an existing story

24.

Create and save your story using your word processing

software.

25.

In the Newsletter, click anywhere in the text frame.

26.

On the Insert menu, click Text File.

27.

Select the word processing file with the story you want to insert.

28.

Click Insert. The story will appear in the text frame.

To enter information in the inside of the newsletter

29.

To go to the second page of the newsletter, click the page icon

with the number 2 on the Status Bar, which is at the bottom of the Publisher
window. You should see a page icon for each of the pages currently in your
newsletter.

30.

On the Newsletter Wizard in the left pane, click Inside Page

Content. The Inside Page Content Wizard allows you to change the layout
of the page to accommodate the information types you may want to add to
the newsletter.

31.

In the lower-left pane, click the Calendar with 1 story option.

The page layout now has a calendar much like the calendar you created in the
previous lesson. For more information on adding information to the calendar,
see the "Creating a Calendar" lesson in this guide.

32.

In the drop-down box in the left pane, select Right Inside

Page.

33.

Click the Response form with 1 story option. The page now
has one story and a form that can be used to accept donations for a
fundraising event.

34.

Continue to customize headlines and articles as described

earlier in this lesson.

35.

On the File menu, click Save to save the changes you have
made to your newsletter.

Entering captions for graphics

No matter how good an illustration is, a caption can tell the readers even more. In
the newsletter, each of the Picture frames also has a caption frame attached. You
can also insert caption frames in your publications.

To change the caption

36.

Click the story graphic on the bottom of page 2.

37.

Press F9 to get a closer look at the caption.

38.

Click the caption and type a sentence describing the

significance of the graphic or picture to your lead story.

39.

Click outside the Text Frame.

40.

Press F9 to zoom out to see the whole page again.

Adding or deleting extra pages

The newsletter you created may contain fewer or more pages than you'll need.
Adding and deleting pages is simple. If you need six pages to fit the content in
your newsletter, follow the instructions for adding extra pages. If you need only
two pages to fit the content in your newsletter, follow the instructions for deleting
extra pages.

To add extra pages

41.
42.
43.
44.

appears.
the page.
for the page.

On the Insert menu, click Page. The Insert Page dialog box
In the Left Page drop-down box, select the layout you want for
In the Right Page drop-down box, select the layout you want
Click OK to add two pages.

To delete extra pages

45.

To go to the second and third pages of the newsletter, click the

page icon with the number 2 or 3, which is at the bottom of the Publisher
window.

46.

On the Edit menu, click Delete Page.

47.

Select Both pages.

48.

Click OK to delete the pages.

Inserting a Drop Cap

Sometimes a fancy first letter (called a
Drop Cap) in a paragraph catches the
readers attention. The Drop Cap can also
help fill a page that does not have a lot of
text. In order to perform this task, you must
already have a story in the text frame.

Drop
Cap
Article
or story

To insert a Drop Cap

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50.

51.
52.

53.

Go to the lead story on page 1 of the newsletter.

Click the lead story text frame on the first paragraph. If you
have not already added a story in this text frame, then add at least one line of
text before continuing.
On the Format Menu, click Drop Cap.
Click the Drop Cap tab, if necessary, and then click one of the
drop-cap options in the Available drop cap box. You can scroll in the
Available drop cap box to see additional drop-cap options.
Click OK to add the drop cap you selected.

Checking your spelling

Publisher 2000 includes some of the same features found in Microsoft Word,
including background spell checking. Publisher 2000 also has a spelling option on
the Tools menu.

To check your spelling

54.

If you misspell a word or Publisher 2000 does not recognize it, a

red wavy line appears directly beneath the word on the screen. Right-click the
underlined word to see suggested spelling option.

55.

You can choose a correction, add the word to the dictionary, or

tell Publisher 2000 to ignore all instances of the word.

56.

On the Tools menu, point to Spelling, and then click Check

Spelling. The spell checker checks one story at a time. A dialog box appears
at the end of the first story asking if you want to check the rest of the
publication.

57.

Click OK to continue checking spelling. The Check Spelling

dialog box appears when a misspelled word is found. You can change, ignore,
or add the word to the dictionary.

Converting your newsletter to a Web site

Publisher 2000 lets you convert any publication to HTML, so the publication can
be viewed with a Web browser. If you create a Newsletter or Brochure publication
in Publisher 2000, you can easily transfer its content to a Web site with a Web
layout. This is useful when the information you present and promote in the
newsletter is of interest to students and to your entire community.

To publish your newsletter on the Web or school

Intranet
58.

In the newsletter you have created, click Show Wizard (unless

the wizards are already visible).

59. In the top Wizard pane, click Convert to Web Site.

60. In the bottom Wizard pane, click Create.
61. In the Convert to Web Site dialog box, click OK.
The newsletter content appears in the Web site format.
62. On the File menu, click Save as Web Page. The page is saved in the folder
you select.
63. On the File Menu, click Web Page Preview.
64. On the Web Page Preview dialog box, click OK to view your newsletter with
a Web browser.
65. When you're finished previewing your Web site, close your Web browser.
Scan personal photos to add to a personal newsletter. If you write about a school
event in the newsletter, include photos from the event. You can also scan original
student art projects and school logos to include in your newsletter. You scan pictures
directly into Publisher 2000.
Note:

To replace a graphic with a scanned image

To preview a Web
66. Place your photo on the scanner
67. In Publisher 2000, right-click the

publication, you need a

Web browser. The
and scan the image.Microsoft Internet Explorer
browser is included on the
2000 CD.
graphic you want toPublisher
replace.

68. Point to Change Picture, then point to Picture, then point to From Scanner
or Camera, and then click Acquire Image. Publisher 2000 will find the
scanner and import the image. To learn more about scanning graphics into
Publisher 2000, ask the Office Assistant "How do I add a picture from my
scanner?"

Explore the Clip Gallery and add additional graphics to your newsletter to add
interest.

For an editorial article, collect quotes from several people voicing their
opinions regarding a school, community, or national current event.

Volunteer to create and publish a newsletter for a non-profit organization in

your community. Students can gather information from the organization and
the community.

Assign students roles as editors, copyeditors, reporters/writers, and layout designers to

create a club or school organization newsletter. Then have students plan, design, create,
and distribute the newsletter within the school and the community.

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