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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.

For more info email Carol Wenzel or call 254-757-5823.

Reminder!
VERIFY YOUR PAPERS

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.

Click here to verify that you received your newspapers

Newspaper tours

Tours of the newspaper plant are also available for school groups of 20 or fewer and no younger than eight years of age. The cost is $25 per group.

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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Daily Science Webcasts

Meteorites - Antarctica

Quick, what's the best spot in the world for finding meteorites?

Listen here!

Teachers: We need your help!

If you're a Kids Kopy subscriber, we'd like to hear from you.

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Get Kids' Kopy monthly

Kids' Kopy is a 12-page tabloid published once a month during the school year featuring a different character trait each month. These can be ordered for classrooms at 17 cents a copy.

Click here to download the KidsKopy schedule and order form.

Online Extras (Updated every Monday)

Resources to help you put the Tribune-Herald to work in your classroom

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS

COUP
DEFINITION: A sudden appropriation of leadership or power; a takeover.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: " Honduran coffee producers on Sunday expressed shock over a military coup in the normally peaceful Central American country and said they were deeply concerned over what the political and economic impact would be." Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2009