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.
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.
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.
Scavenger hunts have long been a popular NIE activity. This publication presents 50 of them – one for each state in the country.