This resource provides activities for learning journalism techniques. From basic news writing to the creating of summaries, comic strips and advertising, these activities introduce the highest standards for both classroom and school newspapers. These motivational activities focus on the use of the sports pages. They cover various areas of the curriculum such as language arts, math, science and social studies. This guide is designed for teachers who want to use newspapers with their students to capitalize on students' seasonal interests.
Creative activities focus on specific holidays and seasonal events.
Capturing each president's personal imprint on U. S. history, this guide is designed to relate themes and events that distinguished past presidential administrations to today's world. Students will be searching through the newspaper to make comparisons between campaigns, struggles and issues of yesterday and those of today. The activities are designed to help beginners learn to read and follow directions as they work on initial alphabet sounds, sight words and simple sentences. This guide focuses on using the newspaper to develop and enhance reading, writing and thinking skills. Activities develop skills in skimming, distinguishing fact and opinion, finding the main idea, interpreting editorials and analyzing themes.