Breaking 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.

Your Editorial
Writing Read to your class several editorials from local papers, as well as a newspaper article of current local interest. Have each student write his or her own editorial to read aloud to the class. Have an open discussion on the pros and cons of each issue.

Creating a Classroom Newspaper
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to write authentic newspaper stories. Students will enjoy this creative, exciting, and stimulating lesson in writing. As they are transformed into reporters and editors, they will become effective users of ICT in order to publish their own classroom newspaper. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, including parts of a newspaper, writing an article, online newspapers, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.