Without Words Bring a newspaper to school. Choose a news items together. Collect articles about the news item for a week. Children think of questions about how a newspaper is put together. Visit a local newspaper to answer their questions.
Children produce a school newspaper for the noticeboard.
Include letters, sports, stories and news. Bring a selection of magazines into the classroom. Allow the children time to go through the different magazines and discuss them. Survey which are the most popular magazines and why. Make a collage of the different headers from magazines.