Ask: How close was your story to the original? How effectively did the headline convey the meaning of the story? You might follow up this activity by asking students to write a headline for their favorite fairy tale. When the stories have been completed, provide each student with the story that originally accompanied the headline. Then distribute headlines from less prominent stories and ask students to choose one and write a news story to go with it. As students replace the missing headlines, ask them to point out the words in the headlines that helped them find the correct story. Provide students with the headlines, and ask them to match each to one of the stories. Display the headline-less stories on a classroom bulletin board. Remove the headlines from a number of news stories. TEN GREAT ACTIVITIES FOR USING THE NEWSPAPER * Twenty-Five Great Ideas for Teaching Current Events Looking for ways to work news into your classroom curriculum? Check out these great ideas for connecting current events to all subjects! * Extra! Extra! - Eight Great Web Sites Connect News to Your Curriculum! Discover eight great sites that will help you link the day's news to your curriculum and challenge students to look beyond the news! Connect the news to science, geography, social studies, art, math, language arts, critical thinking, and technology! Included are six online news quizzes for students of all ages. Explore six great sites that will help you teach about the newspaper - before you start teaching with it! * It's News to Me: Teaching Kids About the Newspaper Celebrate American Newspaper Week by teaching students to be knowledgeable and discerning news readers. When you're done reading this story, be sure to check out these stories from the Education World archives: This week, Education World offers ten additional reasons - in the form of ten terrific classroom activities - for you to use newspapers in your classroom.

contain practical vocabulary and the best models of clear, concise writing.

give everyone something to read - news, sports, weather, editorials, and comics.

can be cut, marked, clipped, pasted, filed, and recycled.

build good reading habits that will last a lifetime.

bridge the gap between the classroom and the 'real' world.

are extremely flexible and adaptable to all curriculum areas and grade levels.

deal in what's happening here and now, providing motivation for reading and discussion.

are an adult medium that students of all ability levels can be proud to be seen reading.

Ten of the reasons teachers find newspapers such effective classroom teaching tools are detailed in the NIE feature 'Why Use Newspapers?' which points out that newspapers Indeed, the news is more a part of the school curriculum than it ever was - for many reasons.

Those are the words of Nola Kortner Aiex, author of Using Newspapers as Effective Teaching Tools. Now, however, newspapers are used throughout the school year in every area of the curriculum.' 'The newspaper is the most widely used of the media, the direct result of a national campaign by publishers, known as Newspapers in Education (NIE).Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В«efore the advent of NIE, newspapers tended to be used only by secondary school social studies teachers in two-week units or for Friday current events sessions. 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. Ten Great Activities: Teaching With the Newspaper More Great Ideas for the New School Year.

Free newspaper template for students