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Inquiring Minds: News and Philanthropy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study newspaper articles and rewrite events from literature into news stories about kindness. In this news article lesson, students read sentences from newspaper articles and identify the purpose of the article. Students...
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Action, Please!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create an advertising campaign. In this environmental education lesson, students research aluminum and aluminum can recycling. Students wrap the lesson up by writing newspaper articles, creating public service announcements, and...
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Older, Wiser, and Making a Difference

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on an adult who plays a significant role in their lives. They conduct peer interviews and write newspaper articles about these important individuals.
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Striving for Success

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore their own talents and create interview questions for a peer involved in a particular extracurricular activity. They write newspaper articles based on the interviews.
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Commas, Commas Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students explore all the uses of commas by finding sentences using commas and describing how they are used by comparing the sentences to the rules for utilizing commas. They create a poster with five rules of commas and examples for each...
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Adverbs

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students encounter the various functions of using different types of adverbs. Students use various adverbs to describe how, where and when events happen. Students show examples of adverbs in various newspaper articles.
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Learning to Give

Closing Ceremonies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Promote volunteerism in your art or writing classes. In this service learning lesson, middle schoolers create promotional materials that include photographs and newspaper articles based on their personal service experiences in local...
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The Boston Massacre: You Be the Judge!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The importance of considering multiple perspectives of the same event is the big idea in this exercise that focuses on the Boston Massacre. Class groups examine photos of four depictions of the massacre, an English and an American...
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Reading the newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read articles related to local, state, national, and world events using word maps.
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The Language Of Crime Newspaper Reporting

For Students 6th - 8th
For this language of crime reporting worksheet, students read, write and discuss newspaper reports about crime, using fill ins, matching, and a crossword puzzle with notes for the teacher and an answer sheet.
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Online Newspaper Search

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils use the Internet to research an article. When they find an article they like, it be printed and they highlight the important information and present to the class.
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Interpreting a Story from a News Article

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and retell a story form out of the newspaper. They write to communicate ideas, stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports. They edit and perfect their projects for homework, and they share their work with the...
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Newspaper for Inner City School

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use their writing skills and digital cameras to produce a newspaper. They write about school events, class projects, items of interest, culturally-related issues, and interview students. Students edit digital images and insert...
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Teaching Tone and Mood

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Tone and Mood are not synonymous! Introduce young readers to these literary devices with a series of exercises that not only point out the significant differences between the terms but also shows them how to identify both the tone and...
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A Day in the Life: Studying Ancient Rome

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Class members use their knowledge of Ancient Rome to write articles for an online newspaper. Using WebBlender, learners craft articles that feature Roman politics, culture, and leisure activities.
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students inquire about the politics and culture of Ancient Rome. In this Ancient Rome project/unit, students research life during ancient Roman times and create a newspaper with articles on politics, sports, culture, and economics.
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Interview With the Signers of the Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars work in small groups to develop three questions that a newspaper reporter assigned to cover the signing of the Constitution might have asked each of the following signers of the Constitution: George Washington, Benjamin...
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What's the Scoop on Slang?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine examples of sports jargon by reading sports articles from a newspaper. They write a news article about a fictional sports event using examples of sports jargon.
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Learning Grammar Through Wordplay

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use wordplay to investigate the grammatical components of a sentence. They read a New York Times article by analyzing the writer's use of nouns and verbs in the article and then constructing original sentences using those words...
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Flights of Fancy?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars reflect on the dynamics of human flight and how objects fall through the air and how science principles are used in flight. They create a How-It-Works poster diagramming the science behind one method of flying. In...
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Newspaper Headlines and Opening Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing newspaper headlines and opening sentences worksheet, learners match the seven headlines with their opening sentences and then predict the what, where, when, and who the articles are about. Students answer 42 questions.
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Synonyms And Explanations As Context Clues

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this reading worksheet, learners learn to identify context clues in written articles and use them to understand the meaning of new words. Students read an article, then answer 3 questions. Then learners are asked to answer 6 questions...
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Finding Main Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this reading worksheet, young scholars learn to identify the main idea in a newspaper article. Students read an article about police dogs and answer 2 questions. Then young scholars choose 3 newspaper articles on their own and...
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Breaking News English: Violence In Japan's Elementary Schools

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL instructional activity, students read or listen to an article about increasing violence in Japanese elementary schools. Students complete all or some of the 100 activities available here including discussion, listening,...

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