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Accidents & Illnesses

Collect newspaper articles about accidents and illness. Paste them in a notebook. Underline or highlight the part of the article that mentions the illness or injury. Discuss whether these could have been prevented and how. Decide what causes more damage: accidents or illnesses.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Reading Comprehension

Standard:

Students extract appropriate and significant information from text including problems and solutions.

Let's Buy a Car

You have an automobile worth $1600. You are planning to purchase a newer model costing between $6000 and $6500. You can borrow money at 14%.Use an auto ad from the newspaper to select a car in your price range. Figure the difference between the purchase price and your trade-in. Use your answer to determine the simple interest for one year.

Subject:

Operations

Grade:

6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Percentages

Standard:

Students apply knowledge of percentages to calculate interest.

Sports Action

The sports section of the newspaper is full of action. Read an article about one of your favorite sports. Notice all the action words or verbs. Circle who or what performs the action. Underline what action took place. Make a chart to see how many action words or verbs you can list.

Subject:

Writing

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Grammar

Standard:

Students identify verbs in writing.

Byline

Find a story that has a person's name at the beginning. This means the story is written by that person and it is called the byline. Circle all the bylines you can find in your paper. Are any bylines the same? What types of articles contain that person's byline? Poodle Pens Poem by Ima Story. Pampered*** a pedigree poodle*** tapped out a poem on her owner's computer last Thursday.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Following Directions

Standard:

Students follow simple one and two-step directions..

Characteristics

Choose a comic strip character and read the comic strip for one week. Look at the situations this character gets into. Think about the way he or she looks acts and talks. Create a list of words that describe the character. Write a character sketch (summary) of your comic strip person.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Vocabulary Development

Standard:

Students create a list of words to describe a character.