Have you ever made a feature article? Making a feature article was definitely harder than I thought it would be. My topic is about dance. It was hard to make because a lot of thought had to come into making it but I definitely think it came out well.
When we started talking about making the feature article we had to come up with a topic and a message we wanted to communicate to the reader. When we were coming up with a topic we had to do one that we know a lot about. We didn’t really do any research about our topic. When I was little, I did dance which helped me learn a ton about it now. When I was little, I did so much dance which helped me learn plenty about it. Then, we had to pick a message we wanted to communicate to the reader. A lot of people think dance is actually really easy and they can wear whatever they want and just dance. But, that’s really not all you do. So I wanted to tell the reader dance is not that easy. That is how I came up with my topic and message.
Writing a feature article is similar to writing a personal narrative but also so different. Writing a personal narrative is a much shorter process than writing a feature article. There is normally no formatting you have to do and you don’t really need pictures, fun facts, and vocabulary boxes. That is mostly the difference between a feature article and writing a personal narrative.
Although making the feature articles was super fun to make, there were some challenging parts of making it. One thing that was hard was formatting it. We had to find the right size pictures and have everything consistent. All the sizes had to be the same, fonts, and colors. Another thing that was challenging about creating the feature article was deciding what made sense to include in each sentence. Also what was challenging was coming up with the title, subtitle, and section headings. The section headings had to make sense on what we are gonna talk about. The title has to be catchy and fun but also make sense. The subtitle had to explain the title a little more but it was still super short. Like I said it was challenging but it was also super fun to make. One thing that I enjoyed was adding the pictures and even though I said formatting was hard it was also super enjoyable. I thought it was enjoyable because we kind of just got to play around with it and see what works and what doesn’t. Lastly, what was enjoyable was making the fun facts box because I knew a lot about dance but I even learned more because I searched for some fun and interesting facts about dance. That is what I enjoyed and what I thought was challenging about creating the feature article.
I used a bunch of interesting techniques to make my feature article more interesting. One thing I used a lot was a vocabulary box. I also used a fun facts box once just to give some more information. I also put a ton of pictures because it is hard to describe some sections. So, I thought the pictures would help describe what I am talking about. I also named the sections what it is about to talk about and for the title we choose a catchy title. On the top and bottom of the page I put a strip of purple to add some more color to the page. For the vocabulary boxes and the fun facts boxes I did a darker purple and white writing, just so the reader would know it is a text feature, and not part of the article. I am also very proud of how my feature article came out but there is one thing I am particularly proud of. I am proud of how the formatting came out because In the beginning the format looked pretty bad but I played around with it a lot and it looks really good now. Before I started to play around with it I duplicated the slide so I will still have the original slide. That is what techniques I used and what I am proud of. That is my reflection of the feature article and now that it is done I am really happy on how it turned out.
