Have you ever made a feature article? If you have, you probably know that there’s lots of challenges to make a good feature article. When I first started learning about how to make them, I was deciding between making my topic about gymnastics or Christmas. I decided to go with gymnastics because it was the topic i knew more about, and it’s the thing I love the most. Also i’ve been doing gymnastics for mostly my entire life so I know everything about gymnnastics. At first I just started writing all about what I knew about gymnastics.  But then when we started getting further into the lesson I had to find a way to make my feature article without saying all about gymnastics and just lean more towards something specific in gymnastics.

Then we started formatting and laying it out how we wanted it to look. Afterwards, we added all our writing into the format. The hardest part was finding images that could fit in the format because whenever I pasted images into the slideshow they would stretch and wouldn’t look normal. Something that was also challenging was finding a way to explain gymnastics vocabulary in a way someone would understand it, because mostly the vocabulary was skills in gymnastics which is hard to explain.

The easiest and most fun part was adding all our writing into the doc cause all i had to do was copy and paste it. Mostly I’m very proud that I was always focused during the process and committed to working hard. Making a feature article was something that challenged me and  pushed me to work at my best. A feature article is similar to a personal narrative but a personal narrative is easier, shorter and you dont need pictures or a word vocabulary. Also a personal narrative doesn’t need any formatting. When making my feature article one thing that was hard was the formatting because I had to make shapes and just guess that my writing would fit inside, i had to make lots of changes once we actually started pasting out writing to the format.

I used lots of techniques to make my feature article better and more interesting. I used a vocabulary box and lots of fun facts to make sure the reader wanted to continue reading my feature article. I also used a ton of pictures to make my feature article more impressive and more interesting. I came up with my title, gymnastics, tougher than you think! I made this my title because the idea that i was trying to send to the reader was that gymnastics is harder than you think it is so i put my idea as my subtitle to make it sound more catchy. There were parts in the process of making the feature article that made me have to think a lot. For example masking my title was hard and used lots of thinking because i had to make sure that my title had something to do with my article, so  even though the title is simple it took me days to think of it. Overall i am very proud on how my feature article turned out and on how the formatting ended up losing  

Check out my feature article!