Often they provide teaching kits to help in the newspaper unit. Newspapers with education departments include the Toronto Star, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Moncton Times Transcript, St. John Telegraph, Charlottetown Guardian Patriot, La Presse, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Hamilton Spectator, Kingston Whig Standard, Brandon Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Medicine Hat News, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Regina Leader Post, Prince George Citizen and Vancouver Province . M4W 1E7 may be helpful. They publish a useful book entitled Learning from Newspapers and several informative pamphlets. Social Studies Discuss what the terms news and newspaper mean.
Newspapers have various names in countries around the world.
Tour your local newspaper plant. Have students make a list of the people involved in printing the newspaper. The rest of the class can act as reporters at a news conference, asking questions of the person and noting the answers. Write the results in an article. Divide students into groups to write newspaper headlines for famous Canadian historical events such as John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, Jacques Cartier's first meeting with the Indians, Confederation, the execution of Louis Riel, World War I and the election of the current prime minister.