New Resources for 2005/2006

All Together Now: Living and Learning in a Multicultural Society
This teacher guide looks at the role the newspaper can play in developing childrenâs literacy skills in a multicultural society. The activities are based on accepted education theories about the way children learn and the resources children bring to the learning setting.

Challenges and Choices 
Activities in this guide have been designed to give students practice in identifying issues, posing solutions and developing problem-solving skills they will need to face real world challenges.

Citizens Together
This guide is designed for five days of instruction using the newspaper to help students explore individual freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights.

ESL, The Newspaper and the Classroom
Features that distinguish the activities in this guide as ESL are their sensitivity to diversity; their immersion in American culture; their focus on specific language needs÷vocabulary, idioms, sentence structure, paragraphing, rhetorical patterns, nuances within language (e.g., puns, symbols, abbreviations, metaphors, personification, analogy); and their rigorous expectations for students.

Linking Language Arts Standards to the Newspaper
By Dr. Darla Shaw 
By using newspaper articles and photos in conjunction with specific strategies and rubrics, at least once a week, teachers can help their students comply with state educational standards and prepare for both standardized tests and real life circumstances.

Money Matters: The Importance of Global Cooperation
This supplement, created in partnership with the IMF Center, explores international monetary issues from 1871 to the present.  It ties in well with U.S. and World History courses.  A teacher guide accompanies the supplement.
Money Matters Teacher Guide

Press Freedom in Practice / NAA Foundation
A manual for Student Media Advisors on responding to censorship.

Service: Together We Can Make a Difference
This supplement will help teachers incorporate service and service learning into the curriculum to not only help the community, but to help students understand that they can make a difference.

The Newspaper As An Effective Teaching Tool / NAA Foundation
This booklet introduces administrators, principals, curriculum directors and teachers as well as new NIE professionals to the concept of using newspapers in teaching and learning.

Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind: Activities for Multiple Intelligences
The newspaper activities in this guide are organized by the seven multiple intelligences identified by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner.  There are activities for grades K-12.

Using Lyrics to Enrich the English, Reading, and Social Studies Curriculum
By Dr. Darla Shaw and the NIE Institute 
This guide has been developed so that any teacher, with or without a musical background, can assist students in lyric writing.  Several mini lessons provide an overview with lyric formats and graphic organizers provided for students to help them prepare their original lyrical pieces.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Standards in Middle School English
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most Middle School English curriculum standards.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Grade K-5 Standards in Major Subject Areas
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most curriculum standards for grades K-5 in English, History/Social Science, Math and Science.