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TEACHER GUIDES (Click titles to download)
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Citizens Together: explores the individual freedoms protected in the Bill of Rights. A five-day lesson plan, shows students how this historical document applies in today's world. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation)
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Creating a Classroom Newspaper: 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. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation)
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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. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation)
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Keep It Real: This 50-page guide focuses on newspapers as informational text. It includes lessons and activity pages for all grade levels. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Newspapers Inspire and Enlighten: An inside look at your newspaper that describes how a typical newspaper is put together, from gathering news to selling ads to printing and delivering the final product. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Newspaper Maintain the Brain: Guide for using the newspaper to enhance basic skills. Unlike textbooks, which are several years outdated by the time they get into students’ hands, the newspaper comes alive with information.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. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Newspapers Now: (new in 2009!): This 53-page guide features 15 lesson plans, each with a student activity sheet. Also included in the guide are 15 elementary-level pages for younger students. They parallel the lesson plans and activities in the guide. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Press Ahead: A teacher's guide to creating student newspapers. 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. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Reading First NIE: Lessons and activities geared toward improving children's reading skills in grades Pre-K-5. (Courtesy of NAA Foundation) |
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Fraud Scene Investigator: an online program that 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. |
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2009 NIE Week Activities: Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Five quick activities that are great as fill-ins any time of the year! |
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ELEMENTARY Level Lessons
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| Lesson Plan Title (click to download) |
Resource Guide Title
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| Reading Comprehension with the Newspaper |
Reading First |
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| Freedom of Speech |
First Things First |
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| Freedom of the Press |
First Things First |
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MIDDLE SCHOOL Level Lessons
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| Lesson Plan Title (click to download) |
Resource Guide Title
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| Home Field Advantage |
Baseball in America |
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| Diversity in General, Letter to the Editor |
Understanding and Valuing Diversity |
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| Cultural Diversity, Arts and Culture in the News |
Understanding and Valuing Diversity |
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| What's Cooking |
Intermediate Math |
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| Design a Life |
Intermediate Math |
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| Weather or Not |
Intermediate Math |
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| Freedom of Speech |
First Things First |
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| Freedom of the Press |
First Things First |
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HIGH SCHOOL Level Lessons
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| Lesson Plan Title (click to download) |
Resource Guide Title
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| Diversity in General, Letter to the Editor |
Understanding and Valuing Diversity |
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| Cultural Diversity, Arts and Culture in the News |
Understanding and Valuing Diversity |
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| Comics on Social History |
Secondary Social Studies |
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| News Analysis |
Secondary Social Studies |
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| Comparing Past and Present |
Secondary Social Studies |
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| Freedom of Speech |
First Things First |
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| Freedom of the Press |
First Things First |
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