how can u use newspaper as instructional materials in teaching?

The most obvious use for newspapers in a classroom is for current events. I’ve had many classes, starting in grade school and continuing all the way into high school, that required me to pick an article each week and write a paper or make a speech about it.

Have students cut out a news article, read it, create a works cited page for it (in proper format, have them write the article name in quotes, underline the newspaper title, page #, date, etc.). Then have them complete the 5 Ws and 1 H (who, what, where, etc). Then have then write a reader response.

Use the local daily newspaper….most have a “Newspaper in Education” program where they will deliver them for free to the school. This activity is great for a Reading class and a Journalism class.

It depends… what grade you teach or what subject.

Social Studies, especially “recent study” for ex. if you are studying Civics, the teacher might hand out local news paper and might tell the class th look @ the bills trying to be passed and look it up by “friday”.

Newspapers are always better in the classroom (unless a fasion class then tabloids can be pretty interesting…) 🙂

Tabloids tend to be a little “against people” if you will.

I hope this help and if it doesn’t ask teachers what they do.

I wouldn’t recommend tabloids, most deal with issues that don’t need to be discussed in school.

What grade are you looking for? What subject?

In upper elementary grades, on neat thing to do is to cut out articles and cut the paragraphs or sentences out and then have the students try to put them back in the correct order…you may want a photo copy of the original, to help you. You can also do this with younger children if its done with a short story.

you can use newspaper when teaching “social studies”

You should choose carefully b4 doing it, coz some newspaper are biased. Choose the most popular one.

tabloids are smaller than newspaper compared by size and information. The articles on tabloids are under summary form.

k-2… cut out pictures and have students write stories about the pictures

use ads as examples of a type of writing and have the students write ads

examples of caption writing…then students write captions for ads and pictures cut from newspaper

use math to determine how long a movie runs

use grocery ads to work out what could be bought with a specific amount of money

Wow.. In journalism you say? No kiddin. Look here Mickey Spillane.. Before you go on to your Masters, I’d suggest learning how to spell ‘Bachelor’.

I use the sports section to teach math concepts and statistical analysis to my middle school students. All of them are athletes – so they enjoy the activity because they can relate to it. It also teaches them how to analyze and comprehend their own statistics.

Contact the newspaper, it probably has everything all ready done for you.

the most effictive i believe is dog training.

thankfully there little or no interest of the subject matter or content so teaching is a breeze