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Don't Lose Your Way in the News Lesson PlanDon't Lose Your Way in the News Lesson Plan
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Don't Lose Your Way in the News

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Learners explore language arts by participating in a newspaper analysis activity. In this journalism instructional activity, students identify how newspapers present stories, who is writing them and how they can obtain information from them. Learners use a list to find items in the newspaper such as comics, weather and sports and circle them after they are located.

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journalism, news media, newspapers, editorial cartoons, political cartoons

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journalism, editorial cartoon, news stories, newspaper analysis, weather, english language arts
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Grade
3rd - 4th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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