Language Arts & Literacy		Math, Science, Tech, Environment
	Social Studies, Govt., Civics		Character Education
	Elementary Resources		Diversity & Multicultural Literacy
	ESL & Spanish Bilingual - Black & Hispanic Heritage,		Financial Literacy Supplements
	Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Safety & Anti-Drug & Alcohol Awareness		Homeland Security, Crime, & Online Safety
	Journalism & Life at a Newspaper		Media Literacy
	Multiple Intelligences		Art
	Careers		Women
	Sports		Study Skills & College Prep
	Life Skills		Reader's Theater & Serial Stories
	Holidays & the Sunday Paper		NIE Miscellaneous

Language Arts & Literacy Resources

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.

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. It offers practice phrases and sentences using the words and a variety of newspaper activities.

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)

Using Lyrics Writing For Enrichment
This guide has been developed so that parents, with or without a musical background, can assist their children 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.

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

Math, Science, Technology & Environmental Resources

Cool It!: The Good, The Bad And What You Can Do About Global Warming
(KRP) Helps children 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.

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).

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.

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) Children learn about weather and its effects while keeping track through daily newspaper reports and maps.

Social Studies, Government, Civics

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

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.

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

Elementary Resources

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 children understand the wonders of the deep—without even getting wet (grades K-3).

Playing it Safe
Helps kids 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
Children 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 children 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/

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) Kids 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 and parents 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 kids develop a better understanding of self, this section can help students better deal with people and choices.

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

Positive Thinking
(KRP) The goal of this guide is to help kids understand 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 children understand that they can make a difference through service and service learning.

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:

Diversity & Multicultural Literacy

Celebrate Diversity!
This NAA Foundation guide provides newspaper lessons that help kids 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.

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).

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 Articles
This consumer education program for students and parents, 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.

The Stock Market: What’s All The Shouting About?
(KRP) Helps students understand the Stock Market and give them a chance to “invest” in 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.

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

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.

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.

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 teens understand the consequences of drug use and to think about more positive actions.

Playing it Safe
Helps kids 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 and parents 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 & Life at the Newspaper

Streaming Video - A Day in the Life of a Newspaper Series

What's in the Newspaper? (video, 4 minutes)
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Who Makes the Newspaper, and How. (video, 5 minutes)
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How Do You Write a Newspaper Article. (video, 3 minutes)
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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.

Glossary of Newspaper Terms

The Newspaper: A Daily Miracle
This is a hands-on student supplement on journalism and the newspaper business. It covers every aspect and department at the newspaper with a chronology of a newspaper’s day.

Media Literacy

Five Key Questions That Can Change the World - Classroom Activities for Media Literacy
This media literacy classroom guide from the Center for Media Literacy provides 25 lesson activities base on five key questions that provide the new framework for media literacy.

Mastering the Message
(NAA Foundation) This guide is designed to help kids gain control of media messages by analyzing them and then using what they learn to create messages of their own.

Media Literacy Kit
This new Media Lit Kit from the Center for Media Literacy helps organize and promote the importance of teaching this expanded notion of “literacy.” At its core are the basic higher-order critical thinking skills – e.g. knowing how to identify key concepts, how to make connections between multiple ideas, how to ask pertinent questions, formulate a response, identify fallacies – that form the very foundation of both intellectual freedom and the exercising of full citizenship in a democratic society. Visit the Center for Media Literacy web site at: http://www.medialit.org

Messages & Meaning
(NAA Foundation) The instructional activities in this guide are organized around four units: Accessing, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Communicating Media Messages.  Each activity is identified by the media concept it illustrates with many accompanied by reproducible activity sheets.

Multiple Intelligences

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.

Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind: Activities for Multiple Intelligences
(NAA Foundation) The newspaper activities in this guide are organized by the seven multiple intelligences identified by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner.  There are activities for grades K-12.

Art

Art Activities Using the Newspaper

Craft Ideas for Re-Using the Newspaper
Fun craft ideas that can be done with newspapers.

Today’s Newspaper, Tomorrow’s Art
(KRP) Art is everywhere in the newspaper, from the layout to photographs and charts. And you can also make art from the newspaper itself from origami to papier-mâché.

You Gotta Have Art
(KRP) Discusses art and artists through the ages and learning about ones own tastes in art.

Careers

Career Day Scavenger Hunt

Career Newspaper Web Sites:

The American Society of Newspaper Editors — Newspaper CareerBank

Newspaper Association of America — Newspaper Careers: More Than Writing News

Newspaper Association of America — NewspaperCareers.org

Careers: Piecing Together Your Future
(KRP) This section introduces students to the world of work and shows them the options they have for life after school.

Careers in Health
(KRP) A guide to prepare students for a variety of jobs in medicine: nursing, optometry, pharmacy or allied health.

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.