2004-2005 Educational Guides

The guides listed below are NEW to the Journal In Education program in 2004. If you are currently an NIE teacher (receiving a class set of newspapers) you can request one of the following teaching guides. The guide will be emailed to you.

This form can be printed and faxed (336 727 7485) or you can email your request (nie@wsjournal.com)

The Journal In Education program wishes that the use of the WS Journal as an authentic resource along with the teaching guides which are standard based programs will give you and your students an exciting learning tool in your classroom.

• 100 Ways to Use the Newspaper Bilingual Spanish/English Activity Cards: Cards come in English and Spanish; Newspaper Knowledge, Math, LA, Social Studies, Science, Life Skills, Critical Thinking, Character Education; there are beginning, intermediate and advanced activities. (You will have to cut apart and make into cards)

• Reading First: Research-Based reading instruction using the newspapers; instructional activities for grades K-12, ESL and adult literacy programs include: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development, text comprehension.

• Thoughtful Literacy Guide: (4-12) Research-based classroom activities using four key characteristics of effective classrooms: Managed Choice, Multi-Source Curriculum, Multi-Task Learning, and Meaningful Classroom Discussion.

• Mega Skills (4-Up) Building Children's Achievement for the Information Age- Using shared experiences, newspaper activities and sparking conversation to teach perseverance, teamwork, motivation and other Mega Skills needed to succeed in today's world.

• Entering the Workforce (9th-Up) How to get and keep. Topics include how to find a job, applying for a job, interview techniques and being a reliable worker.

• Everyday Hero’s (3rd –Up) This 64 page program helps students resolve real world dilemmas, explore the consequences of their decisions and actions and discover and nuture relationships with the people in their lives who can become their mentors and role models

• Be Kind to Animals…and People Too!: This Humane Education supplement, created in partnership with the American Humane Association, helps students learn to be kind to all living things, both human and non-human. It focuses on students developing respect and compassion for the planet we live on and all of its inhabitants. They learn they can choose to make kindness a part of their lives at home, at school, in sports and everywhere they go. For more Humane Education resources visit the American Humane web site at: http:// www.americanhumane.org/

• Iraq—Just the Facts: The goal of this supplement is to provide information students need to understand the causes and effects of the War in Iraq.

• Mentoring Course Student Supplement from The National Mentoring Partnership (grades 6- 12): The mentoring relationship is usually between an adult (the mentor) and a teenager (the mentee). The relationship focuses on the teen's needs. Mentors encourage students to reach their goals based on developing a vision of the future. So, wherever students want to go, mentoring can help them get there!

• Creating a Classroom Newspaper: Provides teachers and students all the guidance they need to create their own classroom newspaper, while developing writing and reading skills.

• Let’s Write a Newspaper Story – (Johns Hopkins University) Get your students hooked on writing. Imagine your students working cooperatively, motivated and staying focused on the task at hand. They are writing real-world newspaper stories. With this easy-to-follow unit course, you will help students write authentic newspaper stories based on training developed during an educational partnership between the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Hammond Elementary School in Laurel, Md. http://www.jhuapl.edu/newspapercourse/

• Newspaper Model Task: This task specifically addresses standards-based objectives. The activities are designed for students in grades 4-8.

• Poetry and Rhyming Worksheets: Nine Poetry/Rhyming Worksheets with these poetry-writing styles: Acrostic (2), Ballad, Cinquain, Clerihew, Haiku, Rhyme, Rhythm, and Riddles.

• Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts: Over two dozen worksheets and numerous short lesson activities to help secondary students establish a good foundation in Language Arts and learn to apply learning in writing, literature and speech.

• Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory (grades 6-12): This NAA guide provides 10 core activities that deal with culture, which help students to examine themselves in the context of their cultural background. After each of the core activities, the guide provide related activities, some to extend the lesson and others based on the multiple intelligence theory, allowing students to spend time working from their gifts and talents.

• Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Give Them the Keys (grades 6-12): This NAA guide is designed to help teachers use the newspaper effectively in their classrooms. There are 10 lessons accompanied by reproducible student activity pages.

• See Clearly… Read!: (preK-grade 12) This literacy guide presented in partnership with the Newspaper Association of America and the Verizon Foundation provides lessons that can be used in the classroom but are written for parents for using the newspaper at home to promote literacy. There are lesson pages for each level, preK, elementary, middle and high school.

• Writer to Reader: The following components are included in this teaching guide: 1) How to incorporate activities into a Writer’s Workshop program or into traditional programs. 2) Educational standards related to reading and writing are identified for individual activities in the guide. 3) Detailed lesson plans and student activity sheets for 10 writing topics. 4) Mini-Lessons showing teachers how to use newspaper elements as a model for writing instruction. 5) Writer’s Organizer pages provide activity sheets students use to plan, draft and revise their writing. Ideas are offered for using newspapers to generate alternative and authentic writing products.

• Editorial Cartoons: Editorial cartoons use humor and satire to show a position about current issues. Editorial cartoons constitute both an unusual art form and a commentary on society. Because they express opinions on public issues, editorial cartoons are useful teaching aids for examining historic and contemporary issues and events.

• First Things First - First Amendment Guide (grades 4-12): (NAA) Several studies have demonstrated that Americans lack comprehensive knowledge of the rights guaranteed them by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The goal of the First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment activity guide is to provide a tool for teachers to build student awareness and understanding about the First Amendment. Incorporating newspaper activities into the curriculum achieves this goal using each of the five freedoms as the vehicle for instruction.

• Geography with the Daily Newspaper: A page of geography activities using the newspaper.

• Secondary Social Studies: This teacher guide offers 50 lesson activity sheets and hundreds of short lesson activities on history, government, economics, geography, conflict resolution, and taking civic action.

• Environmental Awareness (grades 4-12): This EGBAR Foundation Environmental Awareness Curriculum is designed to educate children with the use of the newspaper. Most of the lessons included in the curriculum involve cut and paste activities. This design allowed the curriculum to virtually never become outdated due to the current topics offered by the newspaper. Visit the EGBAR Foundation web site at: http://www.egbar.org

• Math Scavenger Hunt: A short clip and paste activity finding math elements in the newspaper.

• Science & Geography Ideas: A page of activities that incorporate science and geography concepts.

• Gifted Students Guide: The guide is designed for secondary students in gifted programs who have mastered the fundamentals of the curriculum and will benefit from advanced educational stimulation. However, many of the activities may be used successfully with a wide range of higher-achieving and highly motivated students.

• Newspapers Maintain the Brain – A Teacher’s Guide for Using The Newspaper to Enhance Skills (grades 4-12): (NAA) It has been called the living textbook and it lives up to that name. The newspaper can be used to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science. Critical thinking is a natural outgrowth of using the newspaper to learn. Each lesson begins with the skills involved in the process of that activity. Reproducible worksheets accompany most of the activities

• 100 Ways to Use the Newspaper: 100 newspaper activity for teachers to use with students from beginner to advanced in all major subject areas plus life skills, character education, and newspaper knowledge.

• Entering The Workforce - How to get and Keep a Job: (grades 9-12) So students are looking for a new job… Where do they look? What's needed before they apply? What happens in a job interview? Once they get a job… How do they make a good impression? How can they be successful on the job? How do they get along with others? What can they do to move up to a better job? This student supplement gives students simple straightforward suggestions for finding and keeping a job that's right for them.

• Moral Reasoning Lesson Plans Using the Newspaper: Famous child psychologists, Piaget and Kohlberg, discovered that the way we think about moral problems develops throughout our lives. As we get older our logic becomes less self-centered and more complex, taking into consideration many factors. Thinking about problems at "higher stages" means that you take long-term consequences seriously, wonder if the actions will impact your character or integrity, respond to your pangs of conscience or feel a duty to care for others coming from deep within.

• Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan: The Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan is a review of the NAZI anti-Semitic pogroms and laws that went into effect between 1933 and 1945. The timeline marks the escalating levels of prejudice, discrimination, and terrifying violence targeting the many victims of the Holocaust. Lesson questions are provided.

• Project: Solution Character Education Supplement: Thirty-six 8-page supplements are provided, eighteen for each grade level of K-3 & 3-7. Topics include:

__Grade K-3 OR ___Grades 3-7 (note which grade level and circle the topics you wish to receive)

Building Community PDF

Caring PDF

Courage PDF

Doing Right PDF

Forgives PDF

Giving Service PDF

Gratitude PDF

Honesty PDF

Loves Learning PDF

Models Democracy PDF

Nurturing PDF

Persevering PDF

Respecting Others PDF

Respecting Self PDF

Respecting Work PDF

Responsibility PDF

Solving Problems PDF

Taking Initiative PDF

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