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News Around You
News is all around you. You can find news in magazines, newspapers,
on television, and on the Internet. This page has World Wide Web
links for MSSD students and teachers who are studying news in the
1998 Extended School Year program.
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com
Each day's news stories with a summary version and also the full
story.
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington Times
http://www.washtimes.com
This online newspaper is very visual with lots of good pictures.
CNN Interactive
http://cnn.com
Interactive Learning Resources
http://www.cnnsf.com/education/education.html
These web pages focus on utilizing CNN news stories from a California
newspaper for educational purposes. Teachers can use the lessons
for group activities and students can work at their own pace for
individualized learning. Comprehension and vocabulary activities
are provided for each story.
The Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.net
The Bangkok Post is an English-language newspaper in Thailand that
has a large audience of non-English speaking readers. The paper
has developed some excellent educational resources to teach these
readers how to get the most from the paper. With some adaptations,
you can use many of these English language teaching tools and concepts
in your classroom, because newspapers are similar all over the world.
Bangkok Post Educational Services: The ESL/EFL Specialists
http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/home.htm
Although this project was built around an English Thai newspaper,
there are a lot of good ideas and vocabulary building activities
that can be adapted.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com
Minneapolis Star Tribune Online Ideas
http://idea.startribune.com
A resource for educators with newspaper-based classroom activities
and a daily news quiz. It also includes Star Tribune newspaper
articles modified to the 4th-6th grade reading levels with related
comprehension questions and vocabulary activities for each story.
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Online Newspapers
http://www.ipl.org/reading/news
A list of links to online newspapers across the world.
Total News
http://totalnews.com
Total news brings news from the major television networks and other
sources. Some of the pages have audio and video features that are
not captioned.
The Newseum
http://www.newseum.org
Virtual Museum with the "History of the News"
Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
http://www.cagle.com
Time Magazine Online
http://pathfinder.com/time
U.S. News and World Report Online
http://www.usnews.com/usnews
Tomorrow's Morning: News Stories for Kids, Internet Edition
http://www.morning.com
The editions that are posted online are not the latest, but they
have many interesting stories for kids and class activity ideas
for teachers.
Lesson Plans for Teachers
Names in the News
http://www.clickart.com/education/programs/art/amazing/sample/home.html
In this lesson, students write a newspaper article. Using the letters
in their name, they form an acrostic headline and then compose a
matching news story.
Batter Up Baseball
http://www.startext.net/today/news/education/nie/students/batterup.htm
Baseball Vocabulary with ideas for lesson activities.
Small Group Lesson Plan:
Composing & Reading a Summary of a Newspaper Article
http://members.aol.com/Cin1263868/lesson1.html
Grades: 5 to 8, Regular or Special Education
Newspapers in Education Online
http://detnews.com/nie
Weekly lesson plans that tie in WWW sites with news. Published by
the Detroit News.
Akron Beacon Journal's Newspaper in Education site
http://www.ohio.com/bj/nie
Newspapers in Education Online -- The Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/bee/nie/index.html
It is the intent of the Newspaper in Education (NIE)program to provide
teachers, students and parents innovative tools to teach and motivate
students to learn while having fun with real life activities.
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