Newspapers in Education
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Research This report summarizes new research by the Newspaper Association of America Foundation showing that newspapers with specially designed content for teens have a better chance of attracting young readers and keeping them as they age. Teen sections provide an additional boost to later readership beyond the effects of other factors known to influence newspaper reading.
Lifelong Readers_civic engagement 2007 The research presented in this report examines the role of newspapers in developing and shaping future community leaders. The NAA Foundation looks at how the use of newspapers in the classroom or for homework assignments, and access to teen-focused content encourages young people to get involved in volunteer work to better their communities, and to remain civically engaged as adults.
If it catches my eye 2008 online news The Media Management Center at Northwestern University conducted a study seeking to identify what drives the online news consumption of teenagers. They present their findings, recommendations to news organizations, and insights into the characteristics of teen news sites.
This is a powerful presentation by the Media Management Center that explicitly shows what teens want from online news. I t reveals what studies have shown in the past and what to do with these insights.
Lessons/Activities This teaching activity guide was created by the 2001 winners of the Newspaper Innovators in Education Award for students from kindergarten through high school. The activities present a how-to guide for using the newspaper to teach the five freedoms of the first amendment. Additional resources and a follow up are presented.
This is a teacher’s guide for using the newspapers to enhance basic skills. The easily, adaptable activities are for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Many of the activities have corresponding reproducible sheets.
This document is specifically for journalism classrooms and contains a set of nine lesson plans, activities and assessments using the daily newspaper. NAA Foundation supported this project in hopes that teachers could use the daily newspaper as a “textbook” that is affordable and timely.
parent-newspaper-guide-english This guide contains 12 pages of helpful newspaper hints and activities for parents of students ranging from young to older.
Each state is represented by unique scavenger hunt.
This is last year’s guide which returns to the basic principles and goals of NIE Week – to learn about and with the newspaper. It contain 15 elementary lesson plans encompassing a newspaper focus, background, before reading, guiding reading, after reading, and a performance rubric.
High Five Units These units represent an integrated language arts and journalism curriculum for middle school students. Unit A contains lesson plans and activities built around media literacy and newspapers, Unit B builds on the first unit and extends into concepts about becoming a journalist, and finally, Unit C takes the student to “press.”
Critical Thinking Through Core Curriculum: Using Print and Digital Newspaper This teacher’s guide provides an opportunity for developing critical thinking in areas such as financial literacy, nutrition, the environment, character education, and information technology. The activities and extensions are written for grades 3 to 12. Please see attached pdf.
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