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■Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato Student Guide ■Diabetes: A Closer Look Student Guide ■ Winter Gold 2010 Teachers Guide ■ Weather Palooza Teachers Guide ■ Constitution in the News for e-Editions Supplement ■ News Breakers: African American Voices in the Media Teachers Guide |
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Additional resources to download for free
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Through Core Curriculum: Using Print and Digital Newspapers, which is aligned with national learning standards, features a five-subject approach that takes advantage of the wide range of topics covered by newspapers. Topics include financial literacy, nutrition, the environment, character education and information technology. Lessons can be taught individually or as a unit. The guide provides an opportunity to teach critical thinking through subjects that will be vital to students' success as adults.
Teaching Reading With Your e-Edition
Reading is the skill that will help students all through life. And more and more, reading electronically will be the skill most valuable of all. In 19 themed units written to state and national standards, "Teaching Reading With Your e-Edition" uses current events and pop culture to hold students' attention, while covering everything from reading and comprehension strategies, to critical thinking, to ways to build vocabulary. It offers activities that explore instruction techniques such as Read, Wonder and Learn and SQ3R, shows students how to effectively read for information and demonstrates the value of making predictions, sequencing and examining cause and effect. It covers such essential literacy building blocks as parts of speech, root words, signal words and grammar, but also teaches the value of reading for pleasure.
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Super Skills for eEditions
Over 100 ready-to-use, standards-based activities for building skills in technology, math, science, social studies and language arts.Download your activity sheets here:
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Developing Comprehension and Research Skills With the Newspaper
This teacher guide includes 15 lesson plans, each with a classroom activity that helps students develop comprehension and research skills through newspaper content.
Standards for the English Language Arts include:
1) reading for comprehension,
2) evaluation strategies,
3) communication skills,
4) evaluating data,
5) applying language skills.
NIE Institute Educational Resources
As an NIE subscriber, you can access a wealth of free educational resources available through our membership in the national NIE Institute. All are appropriate for classroom instruction when used with the electronic or print edition of The Detroit News or Detroit Free Press.
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Newspapers, The Ultimate Informational Text
Provided by the NAA Foundation. National and state standards place a high priority on students being able to read, write and think about informational text. Many state assessments include high percentages of informational text. Standards require students to ask questions, locate information to answers and evaluate sources of information. This guide will help teachers use the newspaper to teach students these standards.
Thoughtful Literacy Using the Newspaper
This cutting edge guide was written by Dr. Darla Shaw. It is based on the work of Drs. Richard Allington and Peter Johnston, leaders of the Center for English Learning and Achievement/University of Albany (CELA) research team that is studying effective classrooms. In examining teacher practice, they've identified a set of core teaching characteristics that tend to foster thoughtful literacy and the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate information effectively: Managed choice, Multi-source curriculum, Multi-task learning, & Meaningful classroom discussion.
Writer to Reader
(NAA Foundation) The following components are included in this teaching guide:
1) How to incorporate activities into a Writer's Workshop program or into traditional programs.
2) Educational standards related to reading and writing are identified for individual activities in the guide.
3) Detailed lesson plans and student activity sheets for 10 writing topics.
4) Mini-Lessons showing teachers how to use newspaper elements as a model for writing instruction.
5) Writer's Organizer pages provide activity sheets students use to plan, draft and revise their writing. Ideas are offered for using newspapers to generate alternative and authentic writing products.