Today's Classroom Activities :

The Daily News

The Daily News
Reading/Current Events Introduce students to different parts of the newspaper. Headlines, subtitles, date lines, captions, by-lines, body, etc. Provide several different papers for them to find samples of various parts. Have each student take a picture of something going on around the school. They can use what they learned about the newspaper articles to create their own newspaper. Limit each to one page, then put the newspaper together in a booklet for others in the building to read.

Ten Great Activities: Teaching With the Newspaper
Ten terrific classroom activities that use the newspaper to teach all sorts of valuable skills -- including reading and writing for meaning, map reading, media literacy, sequencing, word meaning, and math.

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These guides offer a wide assortment of cross-curriculum activities using the newspaper as a teaching tool.

Newspaper History Lessons
Ideas for using the Newspaper to Teach Current Events.