The paper has developed some excellent educational resources to teach these readers how to get the most from the paper. With some adaptations, you can use many of these English language teaching tools and concepts in your classroom, because newspapers are similar all over the world. Although this project was built around an English Thai newspaper, there are a lot of good ideas and vocabulary building activities that can be adapted. A resource for educators with newspaper-based classroom activities and a daily news quiz. It also includes Star Tribune newspaper articles modified to the 4th-6th grade reading levels with related comprehension questions and vocabulary activities for each story.
Total news brings news from the major television networks and other sources.
Some of the pages have audio and video features that are not captioned. At the Newseum, you can play a journalism ethics game where you come up with answers to 13 historical dilemmas. In the game, you struggle with issues of accuracy, objectivity, privacy, anonymous sources and compassion. You can check your answers and see what the real journalists did. Teacher's Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes.