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.
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Standards-based lesson ideas for using the e-edition and print edition of
The Free Lance–Star in the classroom. |
Getting Started: Take time to teach ABOUT newspapers BEFORE you begin teaching WITH newspapers.
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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.
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I Know! I Read it in the Newspaper!
This 8-page workbook introduces students to newspapers. It is available
with NIE orders. Request a copy for each student when you order newspapers.
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Newspapers Inspire and Enlighten:
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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What's News?
Background information on newspaper content with corresponding activities and career information.
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Just Think! Higher-level Thinking Skills:
Ten lessons introduce types of news and writing found in newspapers. Correlated activities help develop higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills. Grades 5 & up.
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Reading & Language Arts:
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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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Thoughtful
Literacy
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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 Creating
a Classroom Newspaper
Creating Classroom Newspaper: Five days of instruction includes planning, writing news, feature stories and opinions and creating ads.
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 The
Essential Question
Based on the instructional approach of continuous questioning, lessons enhance critical thinking and comprehension by teaching students to actively build understanding as they read and think.
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The
ABC Book of Newspaper Sponge Activities
It’s full of short, hands-on, creative activities that use newspapers
to reinforce standards-based skills in a short period of time–perfect
for days when a lesson runs short and there is no time to start another activity.
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Comic Capers!
31 standards-based activities use the comics pages for an engaging way to
target specific reading and writing skills. Each activity has a focus exercise,
an extension exercise, and English SOL correlations (grades 3-8).
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Social Studies:
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Citizens Together
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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