- Interviewing people in Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun will help strengthen oral
language skills.
- Divide into pairs or small groups to work on different stories for the
newspaper. Or some people may prefer to work independently.
- Those with stronger literacy skills could work with beginning literacy learners.
Or those with weaker literacy skills could work on advertising and other pieces
of writing that include less text and some art or photos.
- The facilitator teaches mini-lessons on the writing process, journalistic
approaches, syllabic keyboarding, grammar, vocabulary and other topics as
they come up.
- Use peer editing and consultation throughout the writing process to get
feedback on your work.
- Include digital and scanned photographs. Photographs of people from the
community, ancestors and family members will interest people and make
them want to read the articles.
- Create headlines that make people want to read on. Articles about familiar
topics, ancestors and their history and local community events will be
interesting reading material in Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun for people in your
community. An interesting headline will encourage them to read the articles.
- You could have a group of people responsible for layout and design of the
newspaper.
- You could appoint one group to act as editors, or different groups or
individuals could exchange their work for editing purposes.
- The group may want to use a newsletter template on a word processing
program.
- The newspaper could be produced on 8½” X 11” paper or 8½ / ” X 14” paper.
- Distribute the completed newspaper in the community and to schools. Your
newspaper will make great Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun reading material for future
literacy groups and schools.
