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.”