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Introducing Students to Newspapers- Six introductory activities.
Your students will get much more out of newspaper lessons in the classroom and newspaper reading in general when you take time to teach ABOUT the newspaper BEFORE you begin teaching WITH the newspaper.
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All Together Now: 12 lessons and activities designed to help students understand their own culture and the culture of others. Includes a section for students for whom English is not their first language.
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Creating Classroom Newspaper Five days of instruction includes planning, writing news, feature stories and opinions and creating ads.
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Just Think! Teach students about the types of writing and features found in a newspaper while providing practice in higher level thinking skills (evaluation, analysis and synthesis).
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Keep It real: Activities help students develop and extend their ability to comprehend informational text structures and organization.
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From Writers to Readers: 10 detailed lessons use newspaper elements as models for writing instruction. Includes rubrics and activity sheets for planning, drafting and revising.
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Easy-to-use lessons actively engage and empower students with effective classroom practices of managed choice, multi-source curriculum, multi-task learning and meaningful classroom discussion.
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great resource for introducing students to newspapers. Topics include news
gathering, newspaper sections, types of writing, advertising, production,
history, careers and terms.
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Student-Developed Questions Using the Newspaper-Build critical questing skills through newspaper and Internet usage. Based on the instructional approach of continuous questioning, lessons enhance comprehension by teaching students to actively build understanding as they read and think. Middle and High
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one-page lessons with rubrics show students how to write and produce the
many genres used in the newspaper. Topics include editorial, feature story,
hard news, advice column, sports article, reviews, summaries, info-graphics,
ads, and more. Students use this knowledge to produce a newspaper as a Multigenre
Research Project on a curriculum topic.
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graphic organizers, including Word Cube, Character Snapshot, Hamburger
Paragraphs, Prediction Tree and many more. SOL
Correlations
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Background
information on newspaper content with corresponding activities and
career information.
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(Password-protected resources are available only to teachers who participate in The Free Lance–Star’s NIE program. If you do not remember your password, please email
a request to us. Include your first and last name and school.)
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