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Welcome to Newspapers in Education!

Newspapers In Education is a national program that promotes literacy through the use of the daily newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. The Waco Tribune-Herald partners with educators and local businesses to encourage literacy, to broaden students' community and global perspectives and to equip area teachers with a powerful tool for teaching at no cost to the teachers or schools.

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Teachers, please remember to verify delivery of your newspapers every semester. NIE is audited annually and must have a verification form on file each semester for every teacher.

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Tours of the newspaper plant are also available for school groups of 20 or fewer and no younger than eight years of age. The tours are free of charge.

Curriculum notebooks

Curriculum notebooks in the areas of reading/writing, mathematics, science, and social studies are available to teachers for $25 each. The lessons are correlated to the TAKS objectives.


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Katydids and Crickets - Thermometer

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This week's lesson:

Mosque debate: Intolerance vs. insensitivity

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

Teachers: Sign up for Kids’ Kopy today

Educators, sign up today for our 12 page tabloid! It is designed for students in grades K-8, although it is beneficial for any student. In addition to focusing on a different character trait, each month's Kid's Kopy will have a science page form the Space Place, a serial story with TEK activities, safe web sites, and much more. Most of the lessons are fun, colorful and have TEKS/TAKS objectives. Also included are innovative tips for teachers and parents.

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Put the Tribune-Herald to work in your classroom



Proposal would penalize movies showing actors smoking with an R-rating

Discussion prompts & video archive.


THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com -- 08/30/2010



Kenya celebrates its new constitution

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

Archive of Geography quizzes

Debate over Islamic mosque near ground zero shows sensitivity of words

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive



Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:


Aug. 29 - Sept. 4, 2010
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