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How
Newspapers on the Internet Can Be Used for Language Teaching?
“Our aim
was to help teachers with some ideas and exercises based on newspapers
that improve the students' reading and writing skills -to prepare them
for reading comprehension tests. With reference to the newspaper
articles, their vocabulary will also be extended, and they will learn
more about the given culture.”
How to Use the Newspapers in the Classroom: 38 Teaching Tips
“Learning
from the real world has magnetic appeal for students. That is one
reason why newspapers are the perfect teaching tools.” The teaching
tips on this website will help you get the most out of your newspapers,
and make it easy to incorporate newspapers into your teaching programs.
Newspaper
Activities Support Children’s Learning in Many Ways
“Joyce
Melton Pagés, Ed.D, president of KidBibs, provides many activities that
demonstrate how newspapers support language and literacy development,
stimulate an interest in current events, support learning across the
curriculum, promote higher level thinking skills, stimulate independent
reading and writing, support character development, and more.”
Newspapers:
Classroom Activities
“These
sites offer numerous ideas for using newspapers in the classroom. The
suggested activities include using newspapers to teach concepts in
subject areas such as language arts, social studies, and math. Includes
information about media literacy skills.”
Newspapers
in the EFL ESL Classroom
“This
article takes a fresh look at newspapers and suggests what to do, and
what to perhaps AVOID doing with this popular medium.”
Resources
“We
have compiled the following list of online resources to help you get
started using the newspaper in your classroom. Here you can find
newspaper-related lesson plans, classroom activities, general
information on newspapers and journalism, some helpful links for getting
information on common newspaper subjects, and much more for all age
groups.”
Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the
Newspaper
“Ten terrific
classroom activities that use the newspaper to teach all sorts of
valuable skills -- including reading and writing for meaning, map
reading, media literacy, sequencing, word meaning, and math.”
Using
a Newspaper in the Classroom
“Every
issue of Easy English Times comes with a separate page of
reading and writing activities and a crossword puzzle. The activities
and words are specific to that issue.”
Using
Newspapers in the Classroom: A Personal Experience
“This article is the
result of classroom experience in which English language newspapers were
used to encourage functional literacy in English among the students. At
the same time, the students were also provided with the necessary
experience to improve their reading skills, enhance their knowledge of
current issues and improve their writing skills.”
Using
the News in the Classroom: a Discourse Approach by Adriana Merino and
Maria Palmira Massi
“This
paper discusses the advantages of using news items coming from both the
visual and the print media, that is, television and newspapers. The
focus of attention lies on the ample variety of thought-provoking tasks
that can be derived from viewing, reading and analyzing. It briefly
discusses the methods of implementation and presents samples containing
various possibilities of their use.”
Accessed on 24 April 2008 |