Volume 3 Month 2 Day 25- Newspaper In Classroom

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Why should newspapers be utilized in classroom?

  • They are inexpensive.
  • They are readily obtainable.
  • They are versatile.
  • They can be used for individual or cooperative activities.
  • They are a source of current information.
  • Using them in your classroom is a method of recycling.

Teaching and Learning Using Newspaper

Following learning activities can be performed in classroom by using newspapers:

  • Parts of Speech

When teaching the parts of speech to your class, use the newspaper to reinforce word identification. Give the students a piece of manila paper or newsprint. Select two or three parts of speech on which to focus. Have them divide their paper into the necessary number of columns and label each column with the name of a part of speech. Give each student a newspaper or a section of a newspaper. Have them search the paper for words that match the parts of speech on their paper. Using scissors have them cut out the words. Then have them glue the word on their papers in the proper column.

  • Main Idea

Select a story from the newspaper that will be of interest to your students. Read the story aloud to your class. Discuss the main idea of the story. Pass out newspapers to your students. Have them select several stories from their papers to read. Tell them to number the stories. Then write the same numbers on a sheet of paper. Next to each number have them write the main idea of the same numbered story. Have your students exchange stories with a partner. Their partners should read the stories and write their main ideas on another piece of paper. When both partners have finished this activity, they should compare answers, discussing any discrepancies.

  • Outlining

After teaching the rudiments of outlining, give your students a newspaper. Have them select an article to read. After reading the article, have them outline it.

  • Sequencing, Story structure

Give each of your students a newspaper. Have them select an article to read which clearly demonstrates an introduction, a body containing several paragraphs, and a conclusion. Tell them to cut out the article then to cut it into paragraphs. Give them an envelope and have them write the article’s title on the front. After placing the paragraphs in the envelope, have them exchange envelopes with another student. This student is to arrange the paragraphs in proper order. Once the article is in order, have the original student check the article for proper order. These articles can be used several times for further practice.

  • Who, What, When, Where, Why

Give each student a newspaper. Have them select an article to read. On a piece of paper have them list the five W’s. Next to each have them write the information from the article that pertains to each. Encourage the students to write their answers in sentence form.

  • Visualizing

Give each student a newspaper. Have them select an article to read. Give each student a piece of unlined white paper. Have them fold the paper into six or eight blocks, numbering each. Tell them they are to retell the article in pictures, no words allowed. When they are finished, have them share their visual articles with the class. See if the other students can retell the article from the pictures.

  • Content Discrimination

Have your students turn to the local section of your newspaper. Instruct them to read the articles on this page to determine which items are “good” news and which are “bad.” Have them circle the “good news” articles with blue crayon and the “bad news” articles with red crayon.

  • Inference

Have your students turn to the front page of a newspaper and copy all of the headlines on a sheet of paper. Instruct them to think carefully about each headline and try to determine what the article is about. Tell them to write their inferences next to each headline. After they have completed this portion of the assignment, have them read the articles’ contents and write how close their inferences really were or were not.

  • Locating Specific Information

Have your students turn to the sports section of a newspaper and select three articles. On a sheet of paper, have them list the following information:

  • TITLE OF ARTICLE
  • NAME OF SPORT
  • TEAM NAMES
  • FINAL SCORES
  • SOMETHING INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL ABOUT THE GAME OR EVENT

 

  • Fact and Opinion

Have your students look through a newspaper to locate four articles that express factual information and four that express an opinion. Have them explain their decisions.

  • Evaluating

Have your students made a poster, collage, or booklet of what they feel are the most important news items for a WEEK. They may draw pictures, cut out articles, or summarize the events. Instruct them to give reasons why they included each item.

 

Getting Classroom Newspaper Created and Published

 If you have students who love to write stories, draw pictures and organize information, why not create a classroom newspaper?
Newspapers are fun way to keep track of events at your school – specifically in your classroom and creating one from scratch will help your students understand how real newspapers are put together.

 Read on and before you know it, your classroom will be all-abuzz with ideas, charts, letters, articles and pictures.

 First, decide who is going to work on what section of the newspaper. Why not assign or have students choose a specific theme? For example, one group could handle the Sports section. Another could take care of the Arts and yet another group could concentrate on The Great Outdoors, Weather and even Classifieds. All students should have some say as to which News Stories will be included.

You could centre your newspaper around a special holiday – like Martin Luther King Day or even Valentine’s Day. Articles that deal with a specific event are called features.

Next, before you begin any work, it is a good idea to have a look at a few different examples. Collect some from home, or find them at your local or school library. As you are reading through your newspapers, take note of what sections you see. How long are the articles? How many photos are there? Are any illustrations or drawings included on the pages? Keep a notebook of what parts of the newspaper appeal to you the most (crosswords, quizzes, opinion pieces, columns, interviews, jokes, etc.) These are the areas you will concentrate on in your classroom newspaper.

Keep track of your ideas by separating them into sections, much the same as a real paper is in sections. Do you want a sports section? An arts page? A science column? These are the things you need to decide. If the newspapers you have are old and no longer being used by anyone, cut some of your favourite sections and pictures out. They will come in very handy later on.

One really wonderful way to decide what kind of feeling your newspaper will have, is to carry out a survey, either in the classroom proper or the entire school. Questions you could ask include, What do you like reading about? Do you prefer pictures or stories? and What do you like best in the newspapers you read?

When you are set with your ideas, you will have to think about the next steps that include actually putting the newspaper together and distributing it to your readers.

Decisions to be made include:

  • How many pages will your newspaper have?
  • Who will write the articles?
  • Who will draw the pictures and/or take the photos?
  • How many articles, news stories, crosswords etc. will the newspaper have?

 

Checklist for Newspaper Production

Use the checklist below as a guide to help you put your newspaper together for publication.

ü Prepare your copy for the newspaper

Put your stories in column form. You can handwrite your stories and reduce them on a photocopying machine. You can type your stories in columns. You can use a word-processor and print out your stories on a printer.

 ü Prepare your artwork for the newspaper

Trace over any pencil drawings for stories or ads with a black felt tip pen. Most photocopiers cannot copy pencil well.

 ü Lay out and paste up your front page

Put your newspaper’s flag at the top of your front page. Then paste your pictures and stories on the page. Be sure to include an index on the front page.

 ü Lay out and paste up the inside pages of your newspaper

Put the ads on your other pages first. The ads always start at the bottom of the page. Your news stories, feature stories and opinion pieces go at the top of the pages. Be sure to number each of the inside pages of your newspaper.

 ü Print your newspaper

Copy your pasted-up pages on a photocopier. After you have copied all the pages, put the pages together in the correct order. Use a stapler to fasten all the pages together.

 ü Distribute your newspaper

Deliver your newspaper to your readers. Be sure to include other teachers, your school superintendent, your principal, office workers and maintenance workers.

Take a copy of your newspaper home to show your family.

 Here are some pointers to help the teachers increase the use of newspaper in the classroom:

 

  • Allow time for free reading of the newspaper every day
  • Instruct students in the use of writing folders to store and organize their newspaper writing activities
  • Collect examples of styles of newspaper writing
  • Refer to the writing styles and genre of the newspaper frequently in your teaching
  • Read interesting news stories to your students every day
  • Talk with your students about the news: follow one story for several days with them
  • Use the newspaper as a stimulus for stories your students write
  • Invite newspaper personnel to visit the school and talk to your students
  • Acquaint students with the use of journals so that writing becomes a part of the classroom routine
  • Provide a safe, predictable environment where students can write everyday
  • Newspapers can be used as an integral part of the instructional program throughout the year.Bottom of Form

 

Glossary related with Newspaper and Publication

A

Ad – printed notice of something for sale (short for advertisement)

AP – abbreviation for the Associated Press, a wire service

Art – any photograph, map, graph or illustration

Assignment – the event or situation a reporter is supposed to report on

 

B

Balloon – a drawing, usually in a comic strip, which makes words appear to be coming directly from the speaker’s mouth

Banner – a headline that runs across the entire page

Beat – the area of news regularly covered by a reporter (e.g., the city hall or the education beat)

Body – the main part of a story

Bold Face – heavy or dark type

Box – border around a story or photo

Break – initial news coverage of an event

Bullet – a large, black dot used at the left edge of a column to mark each item in a series

Byline – the reporter’s name, which appears at the head of a news or picture story

C

Caps – abbreviation for capital letters

City Desk – the area of the newsroom where local news events are covered

Clips – articles that have been cut out of the newspaper, short for clippings

Cold Type – type that is produced photographically

Column Inch – one inch of type or space (measured vertically), one column wide

Columnist – a person who writes a regular column giving a personal opinion

Compose – to set type

Copy – all material used for publication

Copy Desk – area of the newsroom where editing is done

Copy Editor – the person who edits news stories and writes headlines

Correspondent – an out-of-town reporter

Cover – to get all the facts about a news event for a story

Credit Line – the name of the photographer or artist below a piece of art

Crop – to cut away unwanted parts of a picture

Cut – to shorten a story

Cutline – explanatory information under a picture or piece of art; also called a caption

 

D

Dateline – words at the beginning of a story that give the story’s place of origin

Deadline – time at which all copy for an edition must be in

Dingbat – any typographical device used for ornamentation

Dummy – a diagram of a newspaper page used to show printers where stories, pictures and ads are to be placed

 

E

Ear – copy in either upper corner of the front page, on either side of the flag (sometimes used for weather, jokes or to call attention to a special feature inside)

Edit – to correct and prepare copy for publication

Editor – a person who decides what stories will be covered, assigns reporters to stories, improves the stories that reporters write, and decides where stories will appear in the paper

Editorial – an article expressing the opinion of the newspaper editor or management

Extra – a special edition of the newspaper, printed between regular editions, containing news too important to hold for the next regular edition

 

F

Feature – a news story that may not have late-breaking news value, but is timely and of interest to readers

Filler – a story with little news value, used to fill space

Flag – the newspaper’s name as it appears at the top of the first page; also known as the logotype or nameplate

Fourth Estate – a traditional name for the press, referring to it as the “fourth branch” of government; the term indicates the role and the importance of the free press in a democratic society

 

G

Gutter – margin between facing pages where the fold lies

 

H

Hard News – urgent news, usually of a serious nature, found in the front pages of a newspaper

Headline – words in large type at the top of the story telling what the story is about; also called head

Hot Type – type made from molten lead

 

I

Inverted Pyramid – form for a news story where the important facts are listed first and additional details follow

 

J

Jump – to continue a story from one page to another

Justify – to space out a line of type so that each line fits flush to the margin

 

K

Kill – to take out or delete copy

 

L

Layout or Make-up– to position editorial, pictorial and advertising elements on a page to prepare it for the camera

Lead – (pronounced “leed”) the first paragraph or two of a news story, telling who, what, where, when, why/how

Linotype – machine used to produce hot type, one line at a time; no longer used in modern newspaper production

 

M

Market – people the newspaper wants to attract with its news and advertising

Masthead – detailed information printed in the newspaper stating names of the publication’s publisher, editors, and other top executives, usually printed in a box on the editorial page

Morgue – a newspaper’s library of stories, pictures, biographies and other references

 

O

Obit – short for obituary, a death notice

Op-ed – a page opposite the editorial page, where opinions by guest writers are presented

 

P

Play – emphasis given a story on a page

Proof – page on which newly set copy is reproduced so it can be checked for errors before being printed

 

R

Release – advance information about a story given to the newspaper by the source of the news

Reporter – a person who finds out facts about a story and then writes the story for the newspaper

 

S

Scoop – a story obtained before other newspapers receive the information

Stringer – a part-time reporter, a correspondent

Syndicate – organization that distributes columns or feature material, such as comics or advice columns, to many different newspapers

 

U

UPI – abbreviation for United Press International, a wire service

 

V

VDT – abbreviation for video display terminal

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