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Curriculum Resources
NIE Materials are for teachers
within the local readership area of The Free Lance–Star newspaper and are
provided at no cost with newspaper orders.
Student Workbooks - Teacher Guides
- Special Packages - In-paper
Features
Student
Workbooks Workbooks
provide hands-on activities to use with the daily newspaper.
Receive a copy for each student.
 Visual
Organizer Booklets: Complete
with directions for use with newspaper content, rubrics and English SOL correlations,
these booklets provide some of the best NIE lesson ideas from our teachers' guides.
Receive a copy for each student.
Teacher
Guides
It's
NIE for K-3
76 activities
using the newspaper is the perfect hands-on workbook, even for beginning readers.
Lessons included for language arts, writing, science/health, math, news knowledge
and social studies. Grades K-3
ESL,
The Newspaper and the Classroom:
Written by an experienced ESL teacher, this guide provides 140 newspaper-based
activities. The lessons address ESL needs, including sensitivity to diversity, immersion in American cultures
and focus on vocabulary, idiom, sentence structure,
paragraphing, rhetorical patterns and nuances within language. Grades 2-12 and
adult
Reading
First: Research-Based Reading Instruction Using the Newspaper:
Help students become independant readers for life. This guide provides instructional
strategies for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development
and text comprehension. Grades K-12 and ESL
Writing
Skills Teachers’ Guide
Lessons use any day’s
paper to help students become better writers. 13 themed units explore the mechanics
of good writing and use newspaper stories, photos and ads for story ideas and
prompts.
Grades 4-8
What’s
News? Deadline, Byline, Online: Up-to-date,
70-page guide contains timely background information on newspaper content with
corresponding activities for students, career information, and activities for
use across the curriculum. Grades 4-12
Featuring
the Frameworks: Linking Language Arts to Your Newspaper: Word Cubes,
Fact Wheel, Prediction Tree, Character Snapshop, Reflective Inquiry Prompts,
Hamburger Paragraphs, Newspaper Circles, Q-A-D, and more. Use The Free Lance—Star
in conjunction with these ready-to-use graphics organizers and rubrics, preparing
students for both SOL testing and real life situations! Grades 4-12
Environmental
Awareness: A Curriculum guide to Teach Environmental  Education
This 50-page
curriculum guide (available free at www.egbar.org/pdfs/curriculum/pdf) uses newspapers and the internet.
Topics include: sources of pollution, hazardous wastes, recycling, energy, renewable
and non-renewable resources, global warming, environmental laws and more.
Great Earth Day activities! Grades 4-9
Just
Think! Higher-level Thinking Skills and the Newpaper:
Ten Lessons introduce students to different parts
of the newspaper; correlated activities are designed to develop higher-level
thinking and problem-solving skills. Each lesson contains background information
for the teacher, a rubric, Web links and a student activity page. Additional
activities for application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation are included. 5-9
Economics:
Ideas, Concepts and Application
Almost every page of the paper contains economics information in one way or
another. Real-life lessons help students understand scarcity, free enterprise,
supply and demand, GNP, banking and much more. Grades 8-12
School-to-Work:
A Giant Step
Use the newspaper to help prepare students for the world of
work. Sidebars include tips on telephone etiquette, dressing
for interviews, good work habits, and other skills necessary
for finding and keeping employment. Grades 7-12
From
Writers to Readers: Writer's Workshop Using the Newspaper
Students use newspaper models
for writing narrative, expository, persuasive and descriptive text for a variety
of purposes. Grades 8-12
In-paper
Features
Serialized
Stories
On Mondays every fall and spring, we introduce a new, unpublished
novel by a well-known children's author in serial format in
The Free Lance–Star. These serial stories are designed
with cliff-hanger endings, and allow you to share with your
students the excitement, the joy and the anticipation of reading
a chapter a week. Supplemental activities correlated to SOLs
accompany the stories.
Kid
Scoop
and the Weekly Writing Corner for
grades K—6:
This colorful page—written by a former teacher—is
full of fun, skill-based reading, writing, math and social
studies activities. AND students can experience the thrill
of seeing their work published. Each week, The Free Lance—Star
prints entries from local students in The Weekly Writing Corner.
Order Monday’s Free Lance—Star and lesson plans
will be waiting for you every Monday all year long! NIE order
includes Teacher Scoop, a monthly newsletter with additional
newspaper-based activities and a list of upcoming writing
topics.
Teen
Sections
it! on Thursdays focuses on pop culture and entertainment.
Students, grades 7 and up, are invited to join the staff or
to submit reviews for CDs, movies, books and Web sites. For
more information, visit http://it.fredericksburg.com or contact
Dave Smalley at 540/374-5403.
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