Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Provides teachers and students all the guidance they need to create their own classroom newspaper, while developing writing and reading skills.

Journalism Web Resources
Online teacher resources for High School Journalism programs.

Language Arts Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Newspaper Model Task
This task specifically addresses standards-based objectives. The activities are designed for students in grades 4-8.

Poetry and Rhyming Worksheets
Nine Poetry/Rhyming Worksheets with these poetry-writing styles: Acrostic (2), Ballad, Cinquain, Clerihew, Haiku, Rhyme, Rhythm, and Riddles.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts
Over two dozen worksheets and numerous short lesson activities to help secondary students establish a good foundation in Language Arts and learn to apply learning in writing, literature and speech.

Literacy & Reading Development

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Give Them the Keys
(grades 6-12): This NAA guide is designed to help teachers use the newspaper effectively in their classrooms. There are 10 lessons accompanied by reproducible student activity pages.

Read All About It
Newspaper-based activities designed to develop the reading fluency skills of elementary school students.

See Clearly· Read!
(preK-grade 12) This literacy guide presented in partnership with the Newspaper Association of America and the Verizon Foundation provides lessons that can be used in the classroom but are written for parents for using the newspaper at home to promote literacy. There are lesson pages for each level, preK, elementary, middle and high school.

Writer to Reader
The following components are included in this teaching guide:

1) How to incorporate activities into a Writerâs Workshop program or into traditional programs. 2) Educational standards related to reading and writing are identified for individual activities in the guide. 3) Detailed lesson plans and student activity sheets for 10 writing topics. 4) Mini-Lessons showing teachers how to use newspaper elements as a model for writing instruction. 5) Writerâs Organizer pages provide activity sheets students use to plan, draft and revise their writing. Ideas are offered for using newspapers to generate alternative and authentic writing products.