The newspaper plays a vital role in this guide, which features lesson plans, activities and handouts for middle-school students.
A five-day lesson plan, “Citizens Together” explores the individual freedoms protected in the Bill of Rights.
Especially effective at the middle-school level, this guide offers step-by-step instructions for producing a newspaper.
Appropriate for all grade levels, this guide features one elementary activity, one middle-school activity and one high-school activity for each “freedom.”
Students learn how to fight fraud firsthand in this online activity by delving into newspaper stock tables, researching companies through online news, and deciphering the truth of investments from fraudulent sales pitches.
Featuring two activities, "Game On" invites students to use the local newspaper to get in the game of civics and acquire a better understanding of the basic rights of each American citizen as granted by the U.S. Constitution.
The African American soliders of the 369th Infantry Regiment in World War I are showcased in this serial from HarperCollins Children's Books.
Meet the woman who used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States in this free serial from HarperCollins Children's Books.
These lesson plans introduce middle-school students to journalism concepts and meet national language-arts standards. Three units focus on media literacy, the craft of journalism and newspaper production.
The first book in the popular "Warriors" series by Erin Hunter is available in a 14-chapter format courtesy of HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Each of the 11 in-paper features highlights one “Mega Skill” and shows how using the newspaper can help develop that skill.
This tabloid details how a typical newspaper is put together, from gathering news to selling ads to printing and delivering the final product.
Put a plug for newspaper literacy in your paper with the latest in NAA’s series of ads featuring characters from current family-friendly films. Place your newspaper's logo in the specified area on the ad and run it as filler, or give to local schools in poster form.
Activities in this guide use the newspaper to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science.
Celebrated annually during the first full school week in March, NIE Week reinforces a positive and relevant lifetime reading habit in students by engaging them with an authentic text – the newspaper. We create a teacher’s guide and in-paper features each year for use during NIE Week and beyond.
The daily newspaper is the textbook for this nine-unit curriculum (revised in 2009), which gives middle- and high-school students an in-depth introduction to the world of journalism.
Available in English or Spanish, the guide offers suggestions on how to use the newspaper to reinforce what's being taught in school, to talk about shared interests and more.
Middle- and high-school teachers can use the worksheets and detailed assignments in this manual to guide students in the production of a newspaper.
This research-based curriculum for teachers and NIE professionals also contains ideas for parents to use at home with their children plus information about national trends in reading instruction.
The 10-chapter story focuses on a young neighborhood newspaper editor and how she and her intrepid staff cover a block party.
These quotations from the famous (and not-so-famous) about freedom of speech and freedom of the press make good discussion-starters or bulletin board items.
Scavenger hunts have long been a popular NIE activity. This publication presents 50 of them – one for each state in the country.