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NIEonline.com: Serving Newspapers in Education

Providing content and web services
for Newspaper in Education programs


Teachers: For more classroom resources make sure you contact your LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Sample the NIEonline.com content modules below

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►Kenya celebrates its new constitution

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

►Archive of Geography quizzes

►Debate over Islamic mosque near ground zero shows sensitivity of words

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive

Words in the News

Interactive vocabulary quiz based on stories found in your newspaper.

►Sample the quiz

Lesson Plans Categorized by Grade Level

Let your teachers tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

►Elementary (Grades K-4)
►Middle (Grades 5-8)
►Secondary (Grades 9-12)

Educational links library

A library of links to resources for teachers is maintained for you. Links are classified according to grade levels and descriptions are included.

►Sample the links

Generate your own quiz here!

Quiz Options 

Middle School High School

By words   By Definitions

5 10 15 20 Questions


 

Middle School Quiz
Words in the News

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► Delegate
► Technique
► Labyrinth
► Wretched

2. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► Labyrinth
► Wretched
► Commemorate
► Toxin

3. To condescend to give or grant

► Accentuate
► Virtuoso
► Deign
► Phloem

4. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► Suffrage
► Impertinent
► Undulate
► Ozone

5. Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► Vaccine
► Boycott
► Exponent
► Unanimous

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Middle School High School   By Word    By Definition   5 10 15 20 Questions

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
►NJ.com, 08/30/2010

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