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Good News Bad News

Some people say only bad news is reported. Find examples of good news being reported. Find examples of bad news being reported. Create a display.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Draw Conclusions

Standard:

Students draw conclusions about text and support with textual evidence.

Get It Together!

How good are you at putting things back together? Test your skills on today's comics. Find three story strips. Don't read them. Cut them apart and mix up the panels. Now read the dialogue and put the strips together the way they should go. Check your work in another paper.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Drawing Conclusions

Standard:

Students draw inferences about text.

Classifying

Take three sheets of paper. Label one ANIMAL. Label the others VEGETABLE and MINERAL. Cut pictures or advertisements from the newspaper. Paste them on the correct papers. Try to find several for each page.

Subject:

Investigations & Methods

Grade:

2nd 3rd

Skill or Strand:

Classification

Standard:

Students classify and sort common objects based on attributes.

Opinions

Read the Letters to the Editor and find one that gives an opinion on a topic young people might find interesting. Do you agree or disagree with the writer? Defend your answer. Write a response back to the editor. Dear Editor: I think that ten year old kids should be allowed to drive.

Subject:

Newspaper

Grade:

5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Analysis of Text

Standard:

Students distinguish between opinions and facts in text.

Career Choices

Many professionals and their work are mentioned in the newspaper. Find ten professions mentioned in today's newspaper that you think are the most unusual. Cut them out and paste them on a paper in order from most to least uncommon. Who has the strangest list? Do you personally know anyone who is involved with any of the professions?

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Basic Concepts

Standard:

Students understand basic economic concepts and the role of the individual in a free-market economy in terms of the specialized work that people do.

Evaluating Advertising

Look through the newspaper to find three ads you think are effective or well designed. For each ad list the reasons you think so. What reasons do they have in common?

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Strategies

Standard:

Students use appropriate strategies when writing and reading for different purposes (functional reading).

Cutting Cutlines

The one or two sentence explanatory information under a picture is called a cutline. Cut out pictures from today's newspaper. Separate the pictures and cutlines. Give them to someone to see if they can put them back together correctly.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Informational Text

Standard:

Students apply an understanding of how text features make information accessible and usable; use features to gain meaning from text.

Type Styles

Printers use different techniques to make words stand out better. Underline all the examples of bold face type you find in one section of the newspaper. Circle all the examples you find of italic type you find. Bold Italic Outline

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Graphic Organization

Standard:

Students understand how use of visual design makes information accessible and useful.

Leisure Time

Some people have said that the more industrialized a society gets the more leisure time people have. Do you think this is true? Make a collage of items from the newspaper that show ways our society spends its leisure time.

Subject:

Current Events

Grade:

6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Problem Solving

Standard:

Students understand long and short-term causal relationships.

Editorial Topics

Look at the editorials in today's newspaper. Underline the main idea or topic of each. Now make a list of topics you would write editorials about if you were the editor.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Analysis of Text

Standard:

Students identify the main idea of an editorial; understand the use of editorials and gain meaning from text.