Reports & Publications
The NAA Foundation offers a variety of reports and publications for download, almost all of which are free. These documents are in PDF format and require a program such as Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. Click here to obtain a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
New from the Foundation
Other Publications
Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement, the NAA Foundation’s 2007 research study, shows that teen content, NIE, parental reading of the newspaper and parental encouragement to read the newspaper all predict future young-adult readership. Click here to download.
Citizens Together: You and Your Newspaper explores the individual freedoms protected in the Bill of Rights. A five-day lesson plan, it shows students how this historical document applies in today's world. Click here to download.
If It Catches My Eye: An Exploration of Online News Experiences of Teenagers is based on a qualitative, in-depth study of 65 Chicago-area teens by the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. The purpose was to identify what drives online news consumption of teenagers. Click here to download the report.
FSI: Fraud Scene Investigator, an online program, helps students learn how to fight fraud firsthand by delving into newspaper stock tables, researching companies through online news, and deciphering the truth of investments from fraudulent sales pitches. Click here to learn more.
Targeting Teens 2007, a report from NAA’s Business Analysis & Research Department, reveals how the teen market thrives with diverse interests and immense buying power. Click here to download the report.
Newspapers Inspire and Enlighten: An Inside Look at Your Newspaper describes how a typical newspaper is put together, from gathering news to selling ads to printing and delivering the final product.
Click here to download.
Lifelong Readers: The Role of Teen Content, the NAA Foundation’s 2006 research report, reveals that future readership results when newspapers publish content for teens. Click here to download.
Teen$eek I and II detail the NAA Foundation’s groundbreaking advertising study in several newspaper markets. Teen$eek I set out to determine whether teen content could be leveraged to bring in new advertising revenue. Teen$eek II examined if the model developed in the first phase of the study could be replicated in other markets and yield similar results. Together, they provide the tools to build a solid business plan for increasing the bottom line when publishing teen content.
Click here to download Teen$eekI.
Click here to download Teen$eekII.
Target Date: Scavenger hunts have long been a popular NIE activity. This publication presents 50 of them – one for each state in the country. Click here to download.
Specifically designed to help NIE professionals conduct a comprehensive self-audit of their programs, the Best Practices Tool Kit gives you everything you need to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your NIE program. Based on national benchmarks, this booklet allows NIE professionals to compare their programs to the best practices of the most successful NIE operations in the country. Click here to download.
The newspaper plays a vital role in By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students. This curriculum guide features lesson plans, activities and handouts designed for middle-school students. Click here to download the lesson plans, then click here to download the activity ads.
Seeing parents read the newspaper every day motivates children to want to do the same – read and learn. The Parent Newspaper Guide offers suggestions on how to use the newspaper to reinforce what's being taught in school, to talk about shared interests, and much more. Click here to download the English language edition. Click here to download the Spanish language edition.
Youth Content: Getting Started offers advice from current and former youth editors who have been there, done that. It outlines the many ways that newspapers “do” youth content. This guide presents a variety of approaches —not only what works, but what doesn’t. Click here to download.
Growing Lifelong Readers examines the impact of student involvement with newspapers on adult readership. This research study is part of the NAA Foundation's ongoing efforts to document how using newspapers in school can foster literacy and readership in children -- and also help develop lifelong readers. Click here to download.
A 125-page manual, NIE Getting Started offers tips, templates, suggestions and advice from veterans in the field. If you are about to launch your first Newspaper In Education program, this is the guide for you. If you have been asked to take over or revive an existing NIE program, this is the guide for you, too.
First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment, a 41-page teacher's guide, is appropriate for all grade levels. Each "freedom" comes with one elementary activity, one middle-school activity and one high-school activity.
Speaking of a Free Press features more than 200 years of quotations about freedom of the press. These quotes can spark discussion and cause people to think about this freedom that often is taken for granted. Every history, government and civics teacher in your circulation area should have a copy. And it is a must for all school journalism advisers.
The TeenPager report takes a close look at 10 teen products. Some have been around for more than 15 years; others have just begun. With each product, a summary provides the details of its launch, development, content, teen participation, NIE partnerships and involvement with advertising and marketing. Click here for ordering information.
Creating A Classroom Newspaper,one of our most popular downloads, has been updated. With this guide, teachers can help their students gain knowledge of the world around them, make decisions, plan with their classmates and become producers as well as consumers of the written word. The instructions are written at three levels of complexity, so teachers can select the lessons that are most appropriate for their students. This guide is designed for five days of instruction. It allows your class to practice, prepare and create its own newspaper. Each day’s work has been organized with a teacher’s lesson plan, student worksheets labeled Reporter’s Notebook and ideas for additional activities call “On Assignment.”
 |
Newspaper In Education Workshop Workbook:
NAA Foundation’s most popular publication is now available to download at no charge! This 99 page book will give you all the tools you need to conduct popular and successful NIE workshops. The Workshop Workbook is guaranteed to provide you with new ideas and tips if this is your first NIE workshop or you one-hundredth! It is recommended you download this only on a high-speed connection! (PDF file)
 |
Newspaper In Education:
A Guide for Weekly and Community Newspapers
This popular guide has been revised for 2005 to include changes in ABC rules and an updated resource list. The guide helps small newspapers develop strong NIE programs. Many larger newspapers have downloaded the guide for two components: 1. There is an extensive listing of suggested activities divided by grade level and subject matter which can be reprinted and given to teachers and: 2. The resource list. This list, developed annually by NIE Information Service is the most comprehensive listing of resources available to NIE professionals available. Many thanks to NIE Information Service for sharing it with us. Download this guide FREE! (PDF file)
 |
Newspapers Maintain the Brain
A Teacher's Guide for Using The Newspaper to Enhance Basic Skills
For teachers the newspaper offers a special attraction. It has been called the living textbook and it lives up to that name. The newspaper can be used to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science. Critical thinking is the natural outgrowth of using a newspaper to learn. Unlike textbooks, which are several years outdated by the time they get into students’ hands, the newspaper comes alive with information. The newspaper expands the curriculum with an unlimited amount of information to use as background for learning activities. (PDF file)
 |
MEASURING SUCCESS!
The Positive Impact of Newspaper In Education Programs on Student Achievement
In the 2001 report, Measuring Up! The Scope, Quality and Focus of Newspaper In Education Programs in the United States, the Newspaper Association of America Foundation explored the growing number of newspapers that make use of NIE programs.
In cooperation with the NAA Foundation, Dan Sullivan, of the University of Minnesota, led a survey team to find out how many newspapers have NIE programs, where the programs are and who they serve, and in what departments the key NIE members could be found. The results, as presented in Measuring Up, were impressive, displaying solid industry gains and expansion over the eight years leading up to the study.
That information has now been expanded upon in a second research study that explores the measurable success of NIE programs nationally. Once again, Dan Sullivan has gathered and summarized the findings to give NAA Foundation, NIE departments and all other interested parties a closer look at the impact these programs have.
Measuring Success! presents the results of this research in a format that is easy to read and understand - graphic charts and bulleted text that condense and summarize key findings. (PDF file)
 |
MEASURING UP!
The Scope, Quality and Focus of Newspaper In Education Programs in the United States
In recent years, Newspaper In Education professionals have all shared a similar feeling: What we are doing is growing in importance, and the number of existing programs is multiplying. In various promotional pieces, you will see phrases such as "the growing numbers of NIE managers” or “the multitudes of NIE programs across the United States."
The Newspaper Association of America Foundation, charged with actively supporting NIE programs throughout North America, found itself using the same phrases. Numbers show that more newspapers participate in NIE Week and utilize literacy tabloids, so efforts are paying off. But as for exact numbers, no one knew for sure.
Now we know. (PDF file)
 |
Reading First NIE!
A Newspaper In Education Teaching Supplement For Reading First No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the name given to the federal law designed to improve student achievement, is changing the culture of America's schools. The legislation is targeted to the nation’s neediest youngsters, those who in the past have been left behind, never able to catch up academically with their more-advantaged peers. Though the legislation is complex, two important issues are key: (1) Reading is at the heart of all learning in or out of school; and (2) Children who enter school with strong language and pre-reading skills are more likely to learn to read well in the early grades and succeed in later years. In fact, research shows that it is never too early to start building language skills by talking with and reading to children. No Child Left Behind targets resources for early childhood education so that all youngsters get the right start. The goal is to have children - ALL children - reading on or above grade level by the end of the third grade. (PDF file)
MegaSkills
Building Children’s Achievement for the Information Age
Getting What Your Children Need to Succeed. These eleven camera-ready, in-paper features highlight the 11 Mega Skills identified by Dr. Dorothy Rich of the Home and School Institute in Washington, DC. Each ad features one skill and shows how using the newspaper can help develop that skill. These ads are perfect for running on a regular basis or on those occasions when space in available. Download this set of ads today! (PDF file)
Press Ahead!
A Teacher’s Guide to Creating Student Newspapers
Press Ahead! is both a teaching tool and a planning guide for creating a student newspaper.
As a teaching tool, it provides background on the different sections and elements of a newspaper. It includes an instructional guide that requires students to go beyond a quick overview of newspaper components by analyzing the structure, language and connections of different parts of the newspaper.
Press Ahead! also serves as a planning guide for students who want to produce their own newspapers. Forms are provided to help students gather data and organize their thoughts. Other forms detail the steps to produce a newspaper and guide the process of making assignments to newspaper staff.
Press Ahead! also provides opportunities for students to investigate and discuss issues related to press ethics and responsibilities.A section of this guide includes background information and instructional activities on topics such as press freedom, tabloid journalism and online newspapers.
(PDF file)
'The Bee Movie' Newspaper Literacy Ad
"Bee in the Know!"
Put a plug for newspaper literacy in your paper with a new ad featuring characters from DreamWorks' animated film The Bee Movie. In the ad, Barry B. Benson and his human friend Vanessa Bloome are reading a copy of the "Daily Buzz" above the tagline, "Bee in the Know! Find out what all the BUZZ is about in your local newspaper!"
Place your newspaper's logo in the specified area on the ad, and run it as filler, or give to a local school in poster form!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LITERACY ADS!
Already used the ad? Click here for the tearsheet
Bee Movie ™ & © DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved
