With today's emphasis on basic educational values, teaching students to read successfully is a top priority at most schools. Good educators help students develop critical reading skills.
Great educators instill a life-long love of reading in their students.
Novels, short stories and yes, even certain textbooks, can fit that bill. Because they contain news and information about a widerange of events that are current and relevant to your students' lives, newspapers can grab the attention of even your most reluctant classroom readers. And because they are so well organized and easy to read, newspapers offer a high degree of success those who may find reading difficult. Although your students undoubtedly are already very familiar with their local newspaper, they may never have taken the time to explore the basic structure of the publication or the stories it contains. Understanding these underlying principles of news writing and presentation can help them get much more out of their reading experience.