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Click your grade-level and subject for NIE resources designed to help you meet curriculum objectives.
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Introducing Students to Newspapers- Six introductory activities.
Your students will get much more out of newspaper lessons in the classroom and newspaper reading in general when you take time to teach ABOUT the newspaper BEFORE you begin teaching WITH the newspaper.
The
page for kids in Monday’s Free Lance–Star
  Kids
love the timely topics and fun games, and teachers appreciate the correlation
with curriculum objectives for language arts, math, science, social
studies and character education.
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Use these resources to expand the Kid Scoop experience.
For teachers:
• Getting
Started with Kid Scoop: A 16-page teacher’s guide
• E-Scoop: Links
to lesson plans, games and more information about page topics
• Activity
Answer Keys
• Teacher
Scoop —Teaching ideas that use other parts of the paper
• What’s
Next? Upcoming page topics
• Weekly
Writing Prompts: Every Monday, we print writing by local students
in Kid Scoop’s Writing Corner. Give your students the Power
of the Pen! Note: The Free Lance–Star’s deadlines
are12 days after the deadlines posted here.
Guidelines
for Submitting Entries
For students:
• Pop Quiz—a
self-correcting quiz about the current page topics
• Word
Search–an interactive version of the current Word Search puzzle
Kids Page–More
info and fun games about the current page theme
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Explore freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights, with emphasis on rights to know, to express one’s opinion, to assemble, to be secure and to the legal system.
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Provides lessons related to the newspaper’s coverage of town/city government and the local community.
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Creating Classroom Newspaper: Five days of instruction includes planning, writing news, feature stories and opinions and creating ads
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Newspaper-based activities for pre-k through grade five support instruction in fluency, phonics, text comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Includes information for both teachers and parents.
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Activities help students develop and extend their ability to comprehend informational text structures and organization. Includes special section of activity pages for elementary grades.
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Easy-to-use lessons actively engage and empower students with effective classroom practices of managed choice, multi-source curriculum, multi-task learning and meaningful classroom discussion.
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A great resource for introducing students to newspapers. Topics include news gathering, newspaper sections, types of writing, advertising, production, history, careers and terms.
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 The
Essential Question
Student-Developed Questions Using the Newspaper-Build critical questing skills through newspaper and Internet usage. Based on the instructional approach of continuous questioning, lessons enhance comprehension by teaching students to actively build understanding as they read and think. Middle and High
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Featuring
The Frameworks
Word
Cubes, Fact Wheel, Prediction Tree, Character Snapshot, and more. Ready-to-use
graphic organizers include rubrics and SOL correlations.
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What's
News?
Background
information on newspaper content with corresponding activities and career
information.
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(Password-protected resources are available only to teachers who participate in The Free Lance–Star’s NIE program. If you do not remember your password, please email
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Printable NIE Lessons and Activity Sheets:
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 NIE Circle: Print one per each group of 5 students. Includes roles for summarizer, vocabulary person, quoter, connector and illustrator.
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100 Ways to Use the Newspaper: Bilingual English/Spanish Activity Cards Categories include newspaper knowledge, language arts, math, social studies, life skills, critical thinking, character education,
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