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Kid Scoop is a weekly educational activity feature that helps teachers help their young readers! Teachers, Teacher Scoop and NIE Lesson Library provide standards-based lesson ideas and activities using the newspaper.
Teacher Guides
Critical Thinking Through Core Curriculum
Using Print and Digital Newspapers In the age of websites, blogs and social networking, critical thinking skills are more important than ever. Newspapers and news websites provide exceptional opportunities for students to develop critical thinking skills. This guide includes lessons and activities about financial literacy, nutrition, the environment, character education and information technology.
Developing Comprehension and Research Skills With the Newspaper
This teacher guide includes 15 lesson plans, each with a classroom activity that helps students develop comprehension and research skills through newspaper content.
Standards for the English Language Arts include:
1) reading for comprehension,
2) evaluation strategies,
3) communication skills,
4) evaluating data,
5) applying language skills.
N the News
The daily newspaper is the textbook for this nine-unit curriculum, which gives middle- and high-school students an in-depth introduction to journalism.
Newspapers Maintain the Brain:
A Teacher's Guide for Using the Newspaper to Enhance Basic Skills This guide features newspaper activities to enhance student skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science.
Citizens Together: You and Your Newspaper
This five-day lesson plans explores the individual freedoms protected in the Bill of Rights.
By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle School Students
This math/finance curriculum guide features lesson plans, activities and handouts for middle-school students.