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COVER Story Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper The newspaper is the most widely used of the media as a teaching instrument in the classroom. Here are a few classroom activities for you to use newspapers in your classroom
Read a Map:
Arrange students into groups, and assign to each group one international story in the news. Have students explore Maps of the World and choose a map related to their Read and Write for Meaning: assigned story. Ask students to use Remove the headlines from a number the map to answer some or all of these questions: of news stories. Display the headline-less stories on a classroom 1. In which city did the story take bulletin board. Provide students with place? the headlines, and ask them to 2. Which country is that city in? match each headline to one of the 3. What is the capital of that stories. As students replace the missing headlines, ask them to point country? out the words in the headlines that 4. Which language is spoken there? helped them find the correct story. 5. Which continent is that country a Then distribute headlines from less part of? prominent stories and ask students to choose one and write a new story 6. Which countries or bodies of to go with it. When the stories have water, border the country on the been completed, provide each north, south, east, and west? student with the story that originally 7. What physical characteristics of accompanied the headline. Ask: How the country might have contributed close was your story to the original? to the events in the story? How effectively did the headline 8. What effect might the event or convey the meaning of the story? You might follow up this activity by series of events have on the physical characteristics of the country? asking students to write a headline for their favorite fairy tale.
Arrange in Sequence:
Play a Current Events Game:
Cut up some popular comic strips, provide each student with one complete strip, and ask students to put the comics back in the correct order. Or arrange students into groups, provide each group with several cut-up strips from the same comic, and ask them to separate the panels into strips and arrange the strips in the correct order. Then introduce older students to a series of stories about an ongoing news event, and ask them to arrange the stories in the order in which they appeared. Encourage them to use the stories to create a news time line.
Make a list of five categories that might be created using the newspaper, such as Countries, Weather Events, Mathematical Symbols, Movies, and Technology Terms. Ask students to search the newspaper for information related to each category and to write a question based on the information they find. (Remind students to make a note of the answers to their questions.) Arrange students into teams, and use the question-and-answer combinations to play a Jeopardy type of current events game.
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