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Newspaper in the
classroom
HOW TO USE NEWSPAPER AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
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Why newspaper?
Newspapers:
connect the classroom with the real world
build reading habits
provide scope for extended activities and discussion
can be adapted to all curricular areas and levels
make learning fun
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Comprehension
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Incidental grammar
Students could:
- Underline parts of speech
- Change tenses
- Make plurals
- Identify suffix and prefix
- Change from direct to indirect
speech and vice versa
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Sequencing
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Styles of writing
Precis writing – The
students read the story
and condense it to 1/3 of
its length in their own
words. Descriptive writing-
Observe pictures of
people and describe
their physical
appearance and
disposition
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Developing imagination
Headlines –
Provide the
articles or news
items without
the headlines.
Ask students to
create the
headlines
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Classifying
Ask students to sort and classify news items under the following heads:
News
Features
Editorials
Sports
Entertainment
Advertising
Humour
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Perspective building
Use news clippings from
different newspapers to
gain different
perspectives on the
same piece of news.
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Historical perspective
Select a news item on a controversial event and ask students to:
- Relate to events that might have been the cause and discuss the effect
that the incident might have on the future
- What could be the different ways in which to view it?
- How would one recognize bias and prejudice?
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Geographical knowledge
- In which city or town did
the story take place?
- In which country is it ?
- What is the capital of the
country?
- In which continent do you
find this country?
- What countries or seas
borders it?
- What is the language
spoken there?
- Which physical
characteristics might have
contributed to the story?
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Mathematical skill
How much percentage of
the newspaper is devoted
to advertisement?
What would be
the cost of
running a 20
word
advertisement
for a week?
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You can think of many more ways in which you can use a newspaper
in the classroom!
Thank you!