newspaper in the classroom

Newspaper in the

classroom

HOW TO USE NEWSPAPER AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

Why newspaper?

Newspapers:

connect the classroom with the real world

build reading habits

provide scope for extended activities and discussion

can be adapted to all curricular areas and levels

make learning fun

Comprehension

Incidental grammar

Students could:

- Underline parts of speech

- Change tenses

- Make plurals

- Identify suffix and prefix

- Change from direct to indirect

speech and vice versa

Sequencing

Styles of writing

Precis writing – The

students read the story

and condense it to 1/3 of

its length in their own

words. Descriptive writing-

Observe pictures of

people and describe

their physical

appearance and

disposition

Developing imagination

Headlines –

Provide the

articles or news

items without

the headlines.

Ask students to

create the

headlines

Classifying

Ask students to sort and classify news items under the following heads:

News

Features

Editorials

Sports

Entertainment

Advertising

Humour

Perspective building

Use news clippings from

different newspapers to

gain different

perspectives on the

same piece of news.

Historical perspective

Select a news item on a controversial event and ask students to:

- Relate to events that might have been the cause and discuss the effect

that the incident might have on the future

- What could be the different ways in which to view it?

- How would one recognize bias and prejudice?

Geographical knowledge

- In which city or town did

the story take place?

- In which country is it ?

- What is the capital of the

country?

- In which continent do you

find this country?

- What countries or seas

borders it?

- What is the language

spoken there?

- Which physical

characteristics might have

contributed to the story?

Mathematical skill

How much percentage of

the newspaper is devoted

to advertisement?

What would be

the cost of

running a 20

word

advertisement

for a week?

You can think of many more ways in which you can use a newspaper

in the classroom!

Thank you!