Welcome to the Newspaper in Education 
Teacher Instructional Resources Page

Rachel Lopez
The Courier
rachellopez@thecourier.com
Phone: 419-427-8062
Fax: 419-422-2937
701 W. Sandusky St.
Findlay, OH   45840

Over 300 instructional resources are provided including many high quality teacher guides, serial stories, student supplements, character education materials, numerous subject-specific resources, video & audio teacher training modules, and the popular NIE Instructional Calendar.

These resources address the goals of No Child Left Behind and the research- and standards-based curriculum focus of schools and teachers. There are curriculum materials for every subject area and grade level. Resources are listed below with brief descriptions. Click on any resource to access it. All resources may be copied for classroom use or for homework assignments.

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Math, Science, Tech  & Environment
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Social Studies, Govt., Civics
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Elementary & Middle School
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Character Education
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Critical Thinking Skills & Gifted
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Diversity & Multicultural Literacy
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ESL & Spanish Bilingual - Black & Hispanic Heritage,
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Financial Literacy Supplements
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First Amendment
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General Educational Development
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Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Safety & Anti-Drug & Alcohol Awareness
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Media Literacy
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Art
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Women
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NEW! Study Skills & College Prep
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NEW! Life Skills
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Multi-Curricular & Misc. Resources

Ultimate Activity Guide II – Focus on Standards
This guide features over 240 standards-based, newspaper-related activities in eight major subject areas: language arts, history, geography, civics/government, science/tech, math, economics, and arts & humanities (KRP).

Ultimate Activity Guide I
This guide features over 232 newspaper-related activities in several subject areas: language arts, social studies, science/tech, math, and economics (KRP).

Ultimate Holiday Activity Guide
From New Year’s Day to Eat a Pickle Day, this guide covers it all with a day-to-day look at the special days that we set aside to honor events and people. Special days listed for nearly every day of the year (KRP).

Ultimate Sunday Activity Guide
This guide features newspaper-related activities using the Sunday edition of the newspaper (KRP).

A Plan For All Seasons
This guide is organized by season (autumn, winter, spring, summer). Topics of the activities focus on specific holidays, as well as seasonal interests.

Comic Strips…Newspaper Capers
This resource is organized in categories which include: Comic Strip Understandings, Values and Human Behavior, Social Problems and Issues, Language Arts Foundations and Creative Writing and Development.

News AD Vantage
Contents focus on basic elements of advertisements, analysis of advertisements, ad design, consumerism, career education, social studies and language arts.

The Sunday Edition
Contents focus on special features of most Sunday newspapers, including feature writing, entertainment directories (television, arts, film), expanded comics, news coverage, editorials, travel and news magazines.

Language Arts & Literacy Resources

ABC Book of Newspaper Sponge Activities (PDF) (DOC)
What does a teacher do when a lesson runs short and there is no time to start another activity? In the past we called these activities Fillers, but today they have become Sponge Activities: Activities that reinforce standards-based skills in a short period of time.

Comic Strips…Newspaper Capers
This resource is organized in categories which include: Comic Strip Understandings, Values and Human Behavior, Social Problems and Issues, Language Arts Foundations and Creative Writing and Development.

The Essential Question: A Key Element in Critical Thinking and Comprehension
Written by Dr. Darla Shaw. Student developed questions are at the heart of today’s education. Asking the correct question and then going after possible answers is what resourceful, independent learning is all about. If you ask the “right question(s)” you are on the path to finding out about what you really need to know to solve a problem.

Fry's Instant Sight Words and the Newspaper (PDF) (DOC File)
This new resource provides the first 600 sight words identified by Dr. Edward Fry as important for students to learn through about 4th grade and for ESL and adult education learners. It offers practice phrases and sentences using the words and a variety of newspaper activities.

Linking Language Arts Standards to the Newspaper, By Dr. Darla Shaw 
By using newspaper articles and photos in conjunction with specific strategies and rubrics, at least once a week, teachers can help their students comply with state educational standards and prepare for both standardized tests and real life circumstances.

Multigenre Research Projects Using Newspaper Genres
Written by Dr. Darla Shaw based on Tom Romano's book, Blending Genre, Altering Style. The goal of this guide is to teach students how to write and produce the many genres used in the newspaper. Then individual students or student groups will produce an entire newspaper as a Multigenre Research Project on a curriculum topic being studied in class.

Multigenre Audio Training: Seven short audio files by Tom Romano on Multigenre Writing. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Transcript

Newspapers, The Ultimate Informational Text
Provided by the NAA Foundation. National and state standards place a high priority on students being able to read, write and think about informational text. Many state assessments include high percentages of informational text. Standards require students to ask questions, locate information to answers and evaluate sources of information. This guide will help teachers use the newspaper to teach students these standards.

Now I Get It
This NAA Foundation guide provides a variety of lessons and activities to help students develop their comprehension skills. It also includes information about current comprehension skills researchand national standards for reading comprehension. The material is appropriate for students in both middle school and high school. Special activities are included for elementary students.

Speaking Of Language
A guide to using the newspaper for English as a second language studies. It contains seven sections, which include Structure, Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Writing, Reading, Culture and Vocabulary. An extensive implementation plan is also included to provide special direction to the second language teacher or tutor.

Read Well, Write Well
A reading and writing activity guide for use with the newspaper. Features an original story by the authors of the Bailey School Kids series (KRP, grades 3-6)

Reading First: Research-Based Reading Instruction Using the Newspaper
Based on the US Dept. of Education’s Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, a report on successful research-based reading instruction, this guide focuses on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills using the newspaper.

Reading First, NIE!
(NAA Foundation) Another research-based curriculum guide for teachers and NIE coordinators that also provides ideas for parents to use at home as well as information about national trends in reading instruction. The newspaper-based activities suggested are meant to supplement and enrich each of the five elements recommended by the National Reading Panel.

Reading Realities
The 73 activities in this publication use your newspaper in development of reading skills-skimming, distinguishing fact from opinion, finding the main idea, interpreting editorials, analyzing theme, etc.

Thoughtful Literacy Using the Newspaper
This cutting edge guide was written by Dr. Darla Shaw. It is based on the work of Drs. Richard Allington and Peter Johnston, leaders of the Center for English Learning and Achievement/University of Albany (CELA) research team that is studying effective classrooms. In examining teacher practice, they’ve identified a set of core teaching characteristics that tend to foster thoughtful literacy and the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate information effectively:
Managed choice, Multi-source curriculum, Multi-task learning, & Meaningful classroom discussion.

Using Lyrics to Enrich the English, Reading, and Social Studies Curriculum
By Dr. Darla Shaw and the NIE Institute 
This guide has been developed so that any teacher, with or without a musical background, can assist students in lyric writing.  Several mini lessons provide an overview with lyric formats and graphic organizers provided for students to help them prepare their original lyrical pieces.

What’s in a Word?
(KRP) Word origins, meanings, spelling and other word play has never been so exciting!

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory
This NAA Foundation 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 Foundation guide is designed to help teachers use the newspaper effectively in their classrooms. There are 10 lessons accompanied by reproducible student activity pages.

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

Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick language arts lesson activities.

Read All About It
Newspaper-based activities designed to develop the reading fluency skills of elementary school students.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Standards in Middle School English
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most Middle School English curriculum standards.

Writer to Reader
(NAA Foundation) 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.

Math, Science, Technology & Environmental Resources

By The Numbers: Math Connections in Newspapers
This new NAA Foundation guide offers practical classroom math applications using the newspaper.

Chemistry: Essential to Life
(KRP) This supplement helps connect the science of chemistry with the practical world we live in and how it affects our daily lives.

Cool It!: The Good, The Bad And What You Can Do About Global Warming
(KRP) Helps students understand global warming and what steps they can take to make a difference.

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.

Get Plugged In: Learn About Technology in Your Life
(KRP) Here’s a section that brings everybody up to speed on recent advances in technology.

Math Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Math Rules!: Bringing Numbers to Life
(KRP) Uses the newspaper to teach everyday math skills, and bring math to life.

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

Math With Sam
Young readers will discover the real-life uses for math by following a girl through her busy day (KRP, grades 3-5).

Mathematics In The News
These practical math activities help students apply skills in simple calculation, averaging, converting numbers, estimation, problem-solving, computing with fractions and decimals, whole numbers and mixed numbers. Activities include simple geometry, measurement, ratios, cross-products, percentages, range, mean, median, mode.

Secondary Science
Secondary Science offers hundreds of science activities. Based on a report funded by the National Science Foundation, the guide focuses on the reports primary objectives for science education to address: personal needs, societal issues, academic preparation, and career education and awareness.

Science In The News
Provide teachers 70 reproducible NIE activities in earth science, health/nutrition, the environment, careers, technology and general science.

Science Fairs: The Method Behind the Madness
(KRP) Even the brightest kids can struggle with the process of scientific inquiry and preparing for science fairs. This study guide will help that process.

Science Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Talkin’ Trash
(KRP) Explains how garbage is dealt with, the social and environmental issues surrounding disposal and what kids can do in their homes or classrooms to help develop an environmentally friendly future.

Understanding the World of Weather
(KRP) Students learn about weather and its effects while keeping track through daily newspaper reports and maps.

What’s Up With Gravity?: A Look at the Mysterious Force and Its Hold on Our Lives
(KRP) This section will helps students understand that almost everything that happens here, and beyond, is in some way connected to gravity.

Social Studies, Government, Civics

Teacher Guides

And Time Marches On…Current Events
There is no periodical like your newspaper for current events coverage in the diverse areas of local, regional, national and international current events.

Challenges and Choices 
(NAA Foundation) Activities in this guide have been designed to give students practice in identifying issues, posing solutions and developing problem-solving skills they will need to face real world challenges.

Citizens Together
(NAA Foundation) This guide is designed for five days of instruction using the newspaper to help students explore individual freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights.

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.

ELECTIONS!
The activities in this publication are organized by themes which include: Rights and Responsibilities – The Process, The Candidates and Issues at federal, state and local levels, The Role of the Media in Elections and Election Day Returns and Reflections. Each activity requires the use of the newspaper for successful completion.

Election Primary
This is a special publication for use in primary & elementary grade levels in learning the basics of the election process and getting to know the candidates.

Geographic Challenge
Through business, advertising, sports, weather, comics and front page news, students get a taste of the excitement of geography and the importance of geographic literacy in our daily lives.

Global Connections: Geography Learning About the U.S. & the World
Provides nearly 80 lesson activities correlated to the National Geography Standards.

It’s Your Government
(KRP) The section will help students understand and get involved in the political process, from voting to how a bill becomes law.

Secondary Social Studies
(NAA Foundation) 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.

Social Studies and the News
(Craig Lancto) 160 activities exploring the use of newspapers as primary sources including charts, graphs, and visuals to gain information; distinguishing between fact and fiction; recognizing bias and stereotyping; the foundations of Constitutional government; participation of individuals in civic life; the functions of political parties; evaluating the impact of media on public opinion; state and federal government; separation of powers; and economic concepts.

Social Studies Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Curriculum Standards for the Social Studies
Offers newspaper lesson activities based on the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
ten thematic cirriculum standards and addresses the student performance expectations that form the framework for excellence in teaching social studies.

Your Newspaper, Your Town Hall
This guide published by the NC Press Foundation offers lesson activities related to the newspaper’s coverage of town/city government and the local community.

Educational Supplements

NEW! Ben Franklin Tabloid Supplement (PDF) and Serial Story (DOC, no images)
This story about Ben Franklin employs narrative writing and storytelling. It also includes information about Ben Franklin, obtained through extensive research. The author, Elizabeth Whitehead (Times Stones Series of American Heroes), invites young readers to connect to the text with narrators Sam and Isabel as they comment on different aspects of Ben Franklin’s life. A teacher guide has been generously provided by Detroit Newspapers. Also try the Ben Bingo Game (Quark files & images available by request.) Also download: Teacher Guide, Ben Bingo Game & Ben Bingo Cards

Breaking New Ground
(KRP) Most of us don’t give a second thought about where our food comes from, but agriculture has a huge impact on our lives and the lives of millions of people around the world.

Celebrating Flight
Written by NASA, this supplement chronicles the history of flight from unmanned balloons through the Wright Brothers historic first powered flight to man’s exploration of outer space.

NEW! Electing the President
Students will learn about all aspect of elections as require by state standards. State standards usually include: • Explain what an election is
• Describe, explain and evaluate the election process including Voter Registration, Primaries & Caucuses, Party Conventions, General Elections, and the Electoral College.
• Describe, analyze, and evaluate the role of the press in political life/elections in the U.S.
• Explain the role of the media in setting the public agenda.
And many other social studies, civics and government standards

Extra! Extra!: A Current Events Workbook
(KRP) Filled with activities designed to connect current events in the newspaper with subject content across the curriculum.

From the Ground Up: Agriculture in America
(KRP) Explore the history, science, technology and variety of American farm products.

The Holocaust
The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours — a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The German government, controlled by the brutal Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler, killed between six million Jews who lived in Europe. The Germans also tried to exterminate Europe’s Gypsies, or Roma, and they targeted other groups, as well.

It’s Your Right: A history of the Bill of Rights
(KRP) Students will learn about the history of the Bill of Rights and how role those rights play in our life today.

Lincoln Bicentennial
Students will learn about the life of Lincoln, his challenges and his victories. Primary source material from his major speeches, the Gettysburg Address, 1st & 2nd inaugurations, and the Emancipation Proclamation, are provided.

O Canada! The True North Strong and Free!
Students will learn about our neighbor to the north, Canada.  This supplement provides information on Canadian history, parliamentary government, geography, economy/trade, culture, famous Canadian’s and other topics.

Occupations of the Land
This supplement educates about resources and products such as wood, food crops, animals, minerals and petroleum that grow on, or are extracted from, the land. Occupations of the Land Teacher Guide

People and Parliament
This teacher guide with student activity pages will help familiarize students in grades 4 to 12 with the Canadian parliamentary system while applying standards-based skills and concepts.  It is recommended for use with the O Canada supplement and with Canadian newspaper web sites at:
http://www.cna-acj.ca/client/cna/cna.nsf/web/online  

Preserving America's Heritage
Create in partnership with Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, this supplement explains how historic preservation developed with interesting stories from the Pre-Columbian era to the present. Preserving America's Heritage Companion Piece

The Civil War
This supplement will help students compare and contrast the conflicting issues between the Union and Confederate states.  They will learn what military camp life was like and also about the wide variety of ethnic backgrounds of soldiers that fought on both sides of the war.  They will learn about the Battle of Gettysburg, the most important battle of the Civil War.

The Land Connects Us: The Value and Work of Resources
This supplement looks at the important occupations that turn natural resources into products we use in our daily lives. The Land Connects Us Teacher Guide

We The People - Unit 1 Tabloid Supplement / Unit 2 Tabloid Supplement
These two units of the Center for Civic Education’s (CCE) popular We The People curriculum can help schools meet the new Federal requirement that every school study the Constitution on Constitution Day each year. Also try the Constitution Scavenger Hunt.

Your Passport to the World
(KRP) Travel the globe and learn about fascinating regions of the world using this section and the newspaper.

Elementary & Middle School Multi-Curricular Resources

Teacher Guides

Elementary Activities - Getting Into the Newspaper / Part 1 - Pages 1-54
Part 2 - Pages 55-110 This guide offers over 200 newspaper lesson activities that address most content standards across the curriculum.

It's NIE For K–3
Bridge the gap between your newspaper and beginning readers! It’s NIE For K-3 has been designed to help primary teachers discover that the newspaper is a perfect workbook, even for beginning readers!

NIE…It's Elementary
This guide introduces elementary teachers and students K-6 to the many uses of the newspaper in language arts, social studies and math.

Using the Newspaper in Upper Elementary & Middle School Grades
(NAA Foundation) This guide provides 50 newspaper lesson activity sheets plus 100 other short lesson plans in all major subject areas correlated to standards for grades 4-8.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Grade K-5 Standards in Major Subject Areas
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most curriculum standards for grades K-5 in English, History/Social Science, Math and Science.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Standards in Middle School English
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most middle school English curriculum standards. Although originally written for VA SOL's, activities will fit most state standards for middle school English.

Elementary Supplements (KRP)

Alphabet Safari II
Uses African animals to teach the alphabet A-Z with coloring-book graphics (grades K-2)

It Takes Skills
Kids learn about work habits and study skills and learn how easy it is to be a better student (grades 3-5).

Math With Sam
Young readers will discover the real-life uses for math by following a girl through her busy day (grades 3-5).

Oceans of Fun
Helps students understand the wonders of the deep—without even getting wet (grades K-3).

Playing it Safe
Helps students learn do’s & don’ts of personal safety in a fun, entertaining format (grades K-3).

Read Well, Write Well
A reading and writing activity guide for use with the newspaper. Features an original story by the authors of the Bailey School Kids series (grades 3-6)

Unique You
Stresses the importance of character development, cooperation, fairness, honesty, respect and other traits (grades 3-5).

When I Grow Up
Explores the world of work and all the possibilities it holds (grades K-3).

Your Neighborhood
Students learn more about their neighborhood — and the newspaper, — while taking their new alien friends, Nars & Lars, on a tour through the library, the grocery store and other places (grades 2-4).

Character Education Resources

Are There Any Volunteers?
(KRP) Offers a down-to-earth look at volunteering and why it’s so important.

Be Kind to Animals…and People Too! This Humane Education supplement, created in partnership with the American Humane Association, helps students learn compassion for all living things, both human and non-human. For more Humane Education resources visit the American Humane web site at: http://www.americanhumane.org/

Character Education Through The Newspaper
Students will discover definitions and real-life examples of autonomy, responsibility, loyalty, altruism, respect, compassion, integrity, perseverance, tolerance, courage, fairness, faith, reverence, love and friendship in the advertising, features, news, photos and comic strips in the newspaper. Students will also explore their inner feelings and experiences involving a variety of character traits.

Conflict Resolution
(KRP) This supplement looks at a subject we all know something about: conflict. We experience it often in our everyday lives and probably have many feelings about it. Here’s help dealing with it, in each of us and in the classroom.

Count on Character
(KRP) Students discover that good citizenship begins with respect, honesty, kindness and overall good character.

Cyberbullying Prevention
Created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council, this supplement provides tips for students, parents, and teachers
on how to prevent and deal with Cyberbulling online, in school, and in the community.

Focus on Bullying, a 16-page tab comprehensive bullying prevention supplement and program, will assist teachers, administrators, parents and students in developing and implementing a detailed school-wide action plan that strengthens the physical, social, and psychological safety of schools and reduces the incidence of bullying.

The Holocaust
The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours — a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The German government, controlled by the brutal Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler, killed between six million Jews who lived in Europe. The Germans also tried to exterminate Europe’s Gypsies, or Roma, and they targeted other groups, as well.

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.

It’s All About You
(KRP) By helping students develop a better understanding of self, this section can help students better deal with people and choices.

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.

Patriotism
(KRP) A look at patriotism in America — past and present.

Positive Thinking
(KRP) The goal of this guide is to help teachers demonstrate to students that they can achieve success, that their attitudes and skills can improve, and that through the appropriate techniques, positive thinking can become the habit of choice.

Service: Together We Can Make a Difference
This supplement will help teachers incorporate service and service learning into the curriculum to not only help the community, but to help students understand that they can make a difference.

The Power of You
(KRP) Teenagers need to know: Don’t underestimate yourself. They have the power to change almost anything — their school, town, state, country or even the world.

Unique You
Stresses the importance of character development, cooperation, fairness, honesty, respect and other traits (KRP, grades 3-5).

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

Grade K-3  Grades 3-7

Topic

Grades K-3 Grades 3-7
Building Community PDF PDF
Caring PDF PDF
Courage PDF PDF
Doing Right  PDF PDF
Forgives   PDF PDF
Giving Service  PDF PDF
Gratitude  PDF PDF
Honesty PDF PDF
Loves Learning  PDF PDF
Models Democracy PDF PDF
Nurturing  PDF PDF
Persevering  PDF PDF
Respecting Others  PDF PDF
Respecting Self PDF PDF
Respecting Work  PDF PDF
Responsibility   PDF PDF
Solving Problems  PDF PDF
Taking Initiative    PDF PDF

Critical Thinking Skills & Gifted Students

Gifted Students Guide
(NAA Foundation) 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.

Just Think!
(NAA Foundation) This guide focuses on helping students develop higher-level thinking skills using the newspaper. Students need to be problem solvers and lifelong learners. The newspaper is a logical instructional medium for this cause. It is an authentic, real-world text, one that will engage students and provide the information they will need to make decisions throughout their lives.
Components include:

  • The Bloom Six, an overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
  • National Standards and Higher-Level Thinking Skills showing examples of higher-level thinking skills identified in national content standards.
  • Lesson Plans — presented in two parts: Open Their Minds, the teacher page, and Engage Your Brain, the student activity page.

Newspapers Maintain the Brain
(NAA Foundation) A Teacher’s Guide for Using The Newspaper to Enhance Skills: (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
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Diversity & Multicultural Literacy

A Plan For All Seasons
This guide is organized by season (autumn, winter, spring, summer). Topics of the activities focus on specific holidays, as well as seasonal interests.

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory
This NAA Foudnation 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.

All Together Now: Living and Learning in a Multicultural Society
This NAA Foundation teacher guide looks at the role the newspaper can play in developing children’s literacy skills in a multicultural society. The activities are based on accepted education theories about the way children learn and the resources children bring to the learning setting.

Celebrate Diversity!
This NAA Foundation guide provides newspaper lessons that help students explore six areas to celebrate diversity: race, gender, language, ethnicity, religion, and disability, while developing critical thinking skills.

Changing Face of America
(KRP) Focuses on America’s minority groups and the contribution they make to our society.

ESL & Spanish Bilingual - Black & Hispanic Heritage,

100 Ways to Use the Newspaper/Bilingual Spanish/English Newspaper Activity Cards
100 bilingual newspaper activity cards for beginner to advanced in all major subject areas plus life skills, character education, and newspaper knowledge.

ESL, The Newspaper and the Classroom
Features that distinguish the activities in this guide as ESL are their sensitivity to diversity; their immersion in American culture; their focus on specific language needs—vocabulary, idioms, sentence structure, paragraphing, rhetorical patterns, nuances within language (e.g., puns, symbols, abbreviations, metaphors, personification, analogy); and their rigorous expectations for students.

Life Skills / English/Spanish - Communication, Consumerism, Education, Finance, Health Care, Nutrition
This bilingual English/Spanish feature discussed life skills in communication, consumerism, education, finances, health care, and nutrition (6 units on each topic, 36 total).

Speaking Of Language
A guide to using the newspaper for English as a second language studies. It contains seven sections, which include Structure, Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Writing, Reading, Culture and Vocabulary. An extensive implementation plan is also included to provide special direction to the second language teacher or tutor.

Most of the Black Heritage & Hispanic Heritage supplements were provided courtesy of the Ford Motor Company Fund in partnership with Hollister Kids and Detroit Newspapers in Education.

Against the Odds
(KRP) Focus on African-American inventors and the challenges they faced.

Black History: Pioneers in the Classroom
This supplement provides bios on successful African Americans educators with an overview of educational progress over the last century. Black History: Pioneers in the Classroom Teacher Guide

Pride in Color: A Celebration of African-American Heritage
(KRP) Takes a look at the history and cultural contributions of African-Americans and explores where African-Americans have been and how far they have come.

The Heritage of Jazz: African American Influence in American Music
This supplement provides bios on successful African American musicians and how they influenced many aspect of music in America. The Heritage of Jazz Teacher Guide

Trailblazers in Science and Technology
This supplement provides bios on high achieving African Americans in science and technology. Trailblazers in Science and Technology Teacher Guide

Words of Heritage...Writing Black History
This supplement looks at the work of Hughes, Sanchez and black writers that made their mark in the world. It also gives students strategies for getting the most from literature, tips on researching black history or family history, and ways to use the newspaper for inspiration and themes in creative writing. Words of Heritage Teacher Guide

High-Tech Heroes: Hispanic Explorers in Science
This bilingual supplement provides bios on high achieving Hispanics in science and technology. High-Tech Heroes: Hispanic Exploreres in Science Teacher Guide

Hispanics Driving Success
This bilingual supplement provides bios on high achieving Hispanics in many important fields of endeavor. Hispanics Driving Success Teacher Guide

Hispanic Heritage
(KRP) This supplement is designed to expose students to the Hispanic culture and help them explore diversity, geography and the Spanish language.

Hispanic History & Politics
This bilingual supplement provides an overview of Hispanic history & politics with bios on Hispanic politicians. Hispanic History & Politics Teacher Guide

Hispanic Literature & Storytelling
This bilingual supplement provides bios on Hispanic writers and their influence on literature and storytelling. Hispanic Literature & Storytelling Teacher Guide

Financial Literacy Student Supplements

Are You Ready for the Real World
This financial literacy supplement, correlated to national financial education standards, was written by the Center for Economic Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The GMU Center is part of the Virginia Council on Economic Education and the National Council on Economic Education.

Banking: How Money Works
(KRP) Covers all aspects of banks: how they started, what services they provide, saving & checking accounts, credit and other topics.

Be Money $mart (High-Res File 15 MB)
Low-Res File (1.6 MB) / This financial literacy guide published by Junior Achievement (JA), with support from the Allstate Foundation, educates young people on how to prepare for their financial future. This program includes a How-To guide for potential NIE sponsorship by partnering with JA and Allstate.

Consumer Jungle Teacher Guide / Six Consumer Education In-Paper Articles
This consumer education program for students, teachers, and adults, provides a teacher guide and 6 feature articles. Consumer Jungle online offers a web-based program that helps turn high school students into savvy consumers without putting them to sleep. There's something for everyone. Students will discover a host of on-line games, and teachers will find free classroom materials.
Visit www.consumerjungle.org

Focus on Finances
This financial literacy supplement offers Federal Trade Commission (FTC) content to help young consumers deal with issues of Identity Theft, Consumer Fraud, Debt, and Purchasing a New or Used Car.

Entrepreneurship: A Youth Guide to Starting & Operating a Small Business
This supplement, published in partnership with NFTE & NASDAQ, is a how to guide to help youth understand how to start their own business.

Life is Expensive!: Discovering the Real Cost of Living
(KRP) Helps young people realize the importance of financial planning for life’s decisions in a fun and engaging way.

Meet Me at the Mall
(KRP) Consumer economics and financial literacy explored in a kids favorite hangout — the mall!

NEFE High School Financial Planning Program The goal of this program is to help students to learn how to responsibly and effectively manage their money for the rest of their life.  The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program has three main objectives, for students to: 1. Learn the financial planning process—what it is and what it can do for them; 2. Apply the process through assignments they will complete that relate to their experiences with money; and, 3. Take control of their finances, starting today. Newspaper Finance Activities - Real-life newspaper lessons correlated to the NEFE supplement.

The Stock Market
This supplement describes the many institutions and activities involved in helping people and companies buy and sell stock. The stock market is not just one market. Some of its institutions are traditional, floor-based stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange, and some are electronic, computer-based markets like The NASDAQ Stock Market. They are all part of "the stock market" that students (and teachers) will come to understand through this supplement
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The Stock Market: What’s All The Shouting About?
(KRP) Helps students understand the Stock Market and give them a chance to “invest” I their own financial future.

Wallet Wisdom Personal Finance Game
Created by a partnership between the Daily Advertiser (LA) and the Louisiana Council for Economic Education, the game is a fun way to teach students the fundamentals of personal finance.

First Amendment

First Things First - First Amendment Guide 
(NAA Foundation) 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.

Freedom — It looks Good on You
This program aimed at students in grades 7-12, is designed to inspire a better understanding and greater appreciation of the First Amendment and its significance in safeguarding our free society.  The supplement has seven objectives: 1) examines the First Amendment in the context of the Bill of Rights and offers an overview of the document; 2) reviews the First Amendment’s five freedoms; 3) identifies nine categories of unprotected speech; 4) highlights First Amendment court decisions; 5) examines the ethics of free expression; 6) explores the First Amendment in our schools; and 7) discusses the need for greater support of the First Amendment in America’s educational system. R
esources are provided by the Illinois First Amendment Center in partnership with the Knight Foundation.

General Educational Development

Newspaper Literacy & General Educational Development
(By Craig Lancto) The newspaper presents students with authentic literature through which they learn about the real world. While students are studying grammar, language arts, social studies, etc., they are becoming familiar with the people and events that are shaping the future.  This guide also provides a section correlated to GED standards and target date activities.

Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Safety, Anti-Drug & Alcohol Awareness

Be Healthy, Be Fit
A curriculum guide for using the newspaper to teach health and fitness.

Choices: Making Smart Decisions About Your Health & Safety
Teens learn up-to-date information about drugs, alcohol and tobacco; health, exercise & emotional well-being; and leadership & relationships.

Fitness Head to Toe
(KRP) Using this guide and the newspaper, students learn how exercise, nutrition and lifestyle choices affect them head to toe.

Food for Thought
(KRP) This section offers a fun approach to the study of nutrition as wells as social, economic and cultural connections to food.

NEW! Focus on Bullying, a 16-page tab comprehensive bullying prevention supplement and program, will assist teachers, administrators, parents and students in developing and implementing a detailed school-wide action plan that strengthens the physical, social, and psychological safety of schools and reduces the incidence of bullying.

Get Focused: Eye Care and Safety Guides & Lessons Using the Newspaper
This web page, provided by VSG, offers several NIE guides and lessons related to eye care and safety and related topics.

Have the Time of Your Life: Celebrate Responsibly
(KRP) Facts and activities designed to make teenagers think before they drink.

Pathways to a Drug-Free Life
(KRP) This section helps students understand the consequences of drug use and to think about more positive actions.

Playing it Safe
Helps students learn do’s & don’ts of personal safety in a fun, entertaining format (KRP, grades K-3).

Staying Healthy: A Guide to Life Choices
(KRP) Features information on nutrition, exercise, drug use & abuse, self-esteem, and other topics.

Stay Smart, Don't Start: The Truth About Drugs and Alcohol (NEW)
This new supplement provides truth and research about drugs and alcohol for teens, parents, teachers, and the local community and how they can work together on this important issue. It was published in partnership with Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), PhRMA, and CHPA.

Teen Drinking: Too Much, Too Soon…Too Risky
(KRP) This important supplement helps students understand the effects of alcohol, what it does to their bodies and brains, why they may be tempted to try it, the dangers alcohol poses to their health & safety, and how they can say no.

Understanding Drugs: Better Choices, Better Lives
(KRP) A no-holds-barred look at the subject of drugs, and how to make better choices.

Homeland Security, Crime Prevention, Online Safety

Choose to Be Ready – Homeland Security
This supplement, written by the America Prepared Campaign, helps families prepare for all types of emergencies, whether natural or man-made. Families develop a plan, assemble an emergency kit, and become informed about every kind of potential emergency.

Crime Prevention
Created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council, this supplement provides tips for students, parents, and teachers on how to keep themselves, their schools and their communities safe from crime.

Cyberbullying Prevention
Created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council, this supplement provides tips for students, parents, and teachers
on how to prevent and deal with Cyberbulling online, in school, and in the community.

Get Wise About Wireless: Be Safe, Be Courteous
Created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council and The Wireless Foundation, this supplement educates kids and their families about the importance of cell phone safety and responsible use and how to deal with issues like cell-bullying.

Stop • Think • Click
Produced in partnership with the Federal Trade Commission, this supplement provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help students and adults be on guard against Internet fraud, secure their computers, and protect their personal information.

Journalism & Press Freedom

Comic Strips…Newspaper Capers
This resource is organized in categories which include: Comic Strip Understandings, Values and Human Behavior, Social Problems and Issues, Language Arts Foundations and Creative Writing and Development.

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

Glossary of Newspaper Terms