newspaper in the classroom
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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!