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How can NIE help you?

Add The Miami Herald or El Nuevo Herald to your curriculum to enhance your existing curriculum, enliven classroom discussions and develop solid reading habits in your students. These two award-winning newspapers are fresh, timely, relevant, real-world lesson planners. Students are provided with thought provoking materials that not only provide useful information, but also give them the inspiration to think critically and participate in the ever-changing world around them.

Through this NIE website you can ask questions, send comments or order newspaper programs online! The site's most popular feature is our newspaper-based Lesson Plans for grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. . And this fall we're adding a new weekly feature, Newspaper PLUS for grades 4-8. PLUS is a clear concise current events feature that picks the major news of each week, and comes at it from a kid's perspective.

Discussion activities provided on this website encourage students to relate the news to their own lives. Newspaper activities tie current events to lessons of history, government and sciences, sending students into the articles and regular features of the printed or online newspapers. Our Lesson Plans, customized by grade level are updated each Monday.

FACTS ABOUT NIE—
  • The Newspaper In Education program has been in existence for more than 30 years.

  • It is an international system of cooperation between school districts and their local newspapers.

  • More than 76.5% of the daily newspapers in America have an NIE Program.

  • Students at all grade levels use the newspaper as a vital part of their daily studies.

    In the educational literature of the past 30 years, research has shown that:

  • Newspaper use in school increases student awareness about the world at large and the immediate community, and has a positive effect on student attitudes toward school, community and subject matter.

  • Students who used newspapers as a principal source material had better achievement scores in social studies, language arts and mathema- tics than their matched counterparts, who relied only on textbooks.

  • In one study, reading skills increased by two grade levels for students who used newspapers, as compared to those using traditional methods.