newspapers in education : NIE FOR TEACHERS
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N.I.E. Curriculum 2007/08
Newspaper Research – Why Use Newspapers in the Classroom?
MEASURING SUCCESS! The Positive Impact of Newspapers In Education Programs on Student Achievement
This report presents the results of this research in a format that is easy to read and understand - graphic charts and bulleted text that condense and summarize key findings.
Target Date
Grades 4-8. Students write letters to newspapers in states across the country requesting a copy for comparison activities! Great for letter writing, geography and current events!
GENERAL INTRODUCTORY GUIDES/Getting to know the parts of the newspaper
Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper
Provides ten core activities that deal with culture, helping students to examine themselves in the context of their cultural background.
Character Education Through the Newspaper
(Grades 5-12) As students work through the activities, they have the opportunity to explore their inner feelings and experiences involving a variety of character traits including: responsibility, fairness, faith, friendship, tolerance and respect. Includes thirty reproducible sheets.
HUMANE EDUCATION
Be Kind to Animals and People Too!
(Grades 4-6) This 16-pg. guide offers activities and information about pet care, developing the human/pet bond, pet overpopulation, disaster preparedness for your pet, volunteer opportunities and careers with animals.
MATH
By The Numbers: Math Connections in Newspapers
(Grades 6-8) This guide offers practical classroom math applications using the newspaper. Includes: money-related lessons, financial literacy glossary and budgeting.
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Newspapers: Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind (Grades K-8) The short, easy-to-use activities in this 50-page guide are based on the work of Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner and his multipleintelligences theory. These intelligences are linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal.
Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper
Provides ten core activities that deal with culture and related activities, some to extend the lesson and others based on the multiple intelligence theory.
Dr. Seuss Meets Howard Gardner (Grades K-4) This teacher guide combines Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner’s multiple-intelligences theory with Dr. Seuss books.
ECONOMICS/FINANCE
The Stock Market
12 pg. guide for grades 5+.
NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
LIFE SKILLS/CAREER/VOLUNTEERISM
Life Skills in the News
(Grade 6-12) Designed to help students develop and apply practical living and consumer skills through the use of the newspaper.
Entering The Workforce
(Grades 9-12) How to get and keep a job.
SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT/WEATHER
Global Warming
(Grades 4-8) 16-pg. tabloid section. Students are challenged to use published facts, projections and predictions to comprehend the warming trend.
Nature’s Billboard
(Grades 2-4) Guide to Arizona plants and pollination includes reproducible sheets for coloring and hands-on science experiments.
Natural Disasters
(Grades 4-8) This 16 page tab takes an in-depth look at natural disasters and relates them to the five themes of geography.
Taking Care of Our Earth: A Guide to Our Ecosystem
(Grades 4-8) Activities involve critical thinking skills, language arts, social studies, math and science. Habitats, the greenhouse effect and energy sources are among the topics.
Earth Day EGBAR Curriculum
(Grades 4-12) This guide is written by an awardwinning environmental educator and poses ecology challenges for students to discuss.
SOCIAL STUDIES
And Time Marches On . . .
(Grades 6-12) Contains 63 activity sheets and 16 activity cards for local, regional, national and international news found in newspapers.
First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment
All grade levels.
Iraq - Just the Facts
(Grades 9-12) The goal of this supplement is to provide information students need to understand the causes and effects of the War in Iraq.
International Terrorism: Definitions, Causes, and Responses
(Grades 9-12) The objectives of this U.S. Institute of Peace teacher guide are to provide various definitions of terrorism and acquaint students with ways to address it.
Women’s History Guide
(Grades 6-12) Celebrates the accomplishments of 45 historic women.
The Civil War
(Grades 6-12) Compares and contrasts the conflicting issues between the Union and Confederate states. They will learn what military camp life was like, the wide variety of ethnic backgrounds of soldiers and especially the Battle of Gettysburg.
First Peoples of Arizona
(Grades 4-8) Students will learn about the history, present news and future dreams of Arizona's 21 Native Nations.
Gadsden Purchase: From Tucson, Sonora to Tucson, Arizona
(Grades 4-8) Written by Arizona Daily Star staff.
Border Basics
(Grades 4-8) Written by Arizona Daily Star staff. This special 8-pg. section discusses the various ethnic groups in our region, area missions and ruins, the life of an archaeologist and border security issues.
SPORTS/FITNESS/NUTRITION
Hoops!
(Grades 4-12, 51 pages) Learning is fun when following the game of basketball. This is a motivating and relevant guide containing exciting graphics, precise instructions for using the newspaper in the classroom and practical applications for students across the curriculum.
Be Healthy, Be Fit Guide
(Grades 4-8) A curriculum guide for using the newspaper to teach health and fitness. Topics include safe sports, goal-setting, responsible behaviors, avoiding conflict and the food pyramid.
THEATRE
Celebrate Theatre!
(K-12) Lesson plans for "Cats," "Les Miserables," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Fiddler on the Roof," plus 20 more Broadway shows. Lots of examples of ways in which theatre and newspapers can become vibrant threads throughout the curriculum.
Comic Strips . . . Newspaper Capers
(Grades 4-12) 110 activities using newspaper comic strips organized into categories including understanding comic strips, values and human behavior, and creative writing and development.
Editorial Cartoons
Because they express opinions on public issues, editorial cartoons are useful teaching aids for examining historic and contemporary issues and events.
The Sunday Edition
(Grades 5-12, 35 pgs.) Contents include feature and travel writing, entertainment directories (television, arts, film), expanded comics, news coverage, editorials and news magazines.
N.I.E. for K-3
Offers 76 activities in language arts, writing, social studies, science and health, math and overall knowledge.
Fundamentals for Elementary Students
(Grades K-5) Focuses on skill development in language arts, math, science and social studies by incorporating use of the newspaper.
JOURNALISM
Glossary of Newspaper Terms
Creating a Classroom Newspaper (Grades 5-8) Includes how to plan a newspaper, write news stories, write feature stories and create ads. Includes a production check list. Can be used for a classroom or school newspaper. 30 pages.
Who Works at a Newspaper?
Features the various departments and types of jobs at a newspaper. (Single sheet)
What’s News? Deadline, Byline, Online
(Grades 4-8) A 70-page guide of newspaper-based activities focusing on the sections of a newspaper and the essentials of good journalism.
Press Ahead!
(Grades 4+) A teaching tool and planning guide for creating a classroom newspaper.
Multigenre Research Projects Using Newspaper Genres
The goal of this guide is to teach students how to write and produce the many genres used in the newspaper culminating in creating a newspaper on a curriculum topic being studied in class.
Nellie, Woman of the World: The Story of 19th Century Investigative Reporter Nellie Bly
(English or Spanish, 14 chapters.) Includes a crosscurricular, standards-based study guide with newspaper activities allied to chapter content. Elizabeth Cochrane gained worldwide fame as "Nellie Bly," the courageous investigative journalist. Journalism Milestones
(Grades 4-8 ) Brief bios of more than 50 famous journalists.
High School Journalism
Journalism Web Resources
Online teacher resources for High School Journalism programs.
N the News
Provides a set of eight cutting-edge journalism lesson plans created by teachers for teachers.
Speaking of a Free Press
200 years of notable quotations about press freedoms.
Freedom in Practice
A manual for student media advisors on responding to censorship
Newspaper Careers
(Booklet)
READING
Reading First NAA N.I.E. Guide
No Child Left Behind
Includes teaching phonemic awareness with the newspaper (pre-K-2); Teaching phonics with the newspaper (pre-K-2); Teaching reading fluency with the newspaper (grades 3-5); Teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension (grades 3-5).
Reading First: Research-Based Reading
Instruction Using the Newspaper
Instructional activities for grades K-12, ESL and adult literacy programs including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development and text comprehension.
Keep It Real: Newspapers, the Ultimate Informational Text (Grades 4-8)
Thoughtful Literacy Guide
(Grades 4-12) Research-based classroom activities using four key characteristics of effective classrooms: Managed Choice, Multi-Source Curriculum, Multi-Task Learning and Meaningful Classroom Discussion.
Now I Get It! Improving Comprehension With Newspapers
The teacher controls the difficulty of each activity through individual selection of newspaper texts. When students become familiar with text structures, they will find it easier to read the newspaper.
Give Them The Keys
(Grades 6-8) Each real-life newspaper activity provides a description of the educational standards used, a brief discussion of the newspaper section used, activity instructions, follow-up activities and assessment. Adaptations for younger and older students.
WRITING
From Writers to Readers
Mini-lessons on keeping a writer's journal, descriptive writing, persuasive writing, fiction, poetry and gathering and organizing research data.
Newspapers Make the "Write" Connection
Worksheets help teach the five-part writing model: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
Along Came a Spider
(K-5) Guide has 60 pages of activities for teaching the sequence and components of narrative writing.
Poetry Worksheets
Using the newspaper to create acrostics, ballads, cinquains, couplets, limericks, rhymes, riddles, rhythm, haiku and the clerihew.
MEDIA
Messages and Meaning: A guide to Understanding Media
(Grades 6-8) Serves as an introduction to the forms and issues related to media literacy. Topics cover accessing, analyzing and evaluating media messages. Each activity is followed by a set of rubrics.
Media Literacy Kit
At its core are higher-order critical thinking skills, knowing how to identify key concepts, how to make connections between multiple ideas, how to ask pertinent questions, formulate a response and identify fallacies.
BILINGUAL/ESL
101 Ways to use the Newspaper
(Bilingual activities)
ESL Guide - Speaking of Language
(Grades 4-Adult) For ESL teachers or tutors This 47-page guide is divided into focus areas: speaking, structure, listening comprehension, reading, vocabulary, writing and culture.
CRITICAL THINKING
Just Think! Higher-Level Thinking Skills & the Newspaper
This is a 34-page teacher guide featuring activities that focus on helping students develop higher-level thinking skills using the newspaper.
DIVERSITY/CHARACTER EDUCATION
All Together Now: Living and Learning in a Multicultural Society
This guide looks at the role the newspaper can play in developing children’s literacy skills in a multicultural society.
