I went on my local newspaper, the Home News Tribune's website and found that they had a whole section dedicated just to NJ education. There is a lot of helpful information there. Posted below is just one of the items listed at http://www.app.com/static/nie/hntnie/
100 Ways to use the Home News TribuneLearn how your local newspaper can be used to teach students.
Kindergarten--Second Grade Activities
Look through the newspaper and find pictures of ten things you have in your house. Cut out these pictures and paste them on a piece of paper. Label each picture.
Cut out letters of the alphabet from newspaper headlines to spell your first and last name. Paste them on a piece of paper.
Find pictures of appliances that run on electricity. That means they need to be plugged in. Cut them out and paste them on a piece of paper. How many did you find? How many of these do you have in your house? Can you write the names of any of them?
How many happy people can you find in the newspaper? Cut out pictures of happy people and paste them on your paper. Do the same for sad people. Why do you think these people are happy or sad?
Look through the newspaper and cut out all the letters of the alphabet and paste them in alphabetical order on your paper. Then find a word from the newspaper for each letter of the alphabet and paste it on your paper next to the letter the word starts with.
Letters and numbers come in many sizes. Make a display of some of the letters and numbers you find in the newspaper.
Draw three circles the size of dinner plates on your paper. Using the newspaper, cut out food you would eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Group the foods by meal and food group. Paste the foods you have cut out onto the correct plate.
Some people live where it is warm all year long. Cut out four pictures of clothes you would wear in warm places. Now, cut out four pictures of clothes you would not wear in warm places. Write a sentence about whether you would like to live in a warm climate.
Look at the food ads. Find the names of eight things you can eat or drink. Cut these names or items out of the newspaper and paste them on a piece of paper. Put a happy face on your favorite food.
Cut out five pictures from a newspaper. Paste these pictures onto a piece of paper. In each picture, see if you can find: squares, triangles, rectangles, circles, ovals. Use a crayon to go over any shapes you may find.
Find and clip numbers of the same size in the newspaper and paste them on a paper plate to make the face of a clock. Make and attach hands for your clock. Find different times listed in the paper and practice positioning the hands of your clock to represent those times.
Find sets of pictures and words in the newspaper. Create a collage for each set.
Find long words in the newspaper. Cut them out and alphabetize them.
Cutout two comics from your newspaper. Paste the comics on a piece of paper and erase the words. Write your own words in the balloon. Have a friend read your comics.
Find pictures of forms of transportation in the newspaper and cut them out. Paste them on a piece of paper and label each picture. Can you think of any other kinds of transportation? If so, list them and draw pictures of them.
As part of a lesson on safety, clip ten newspaper pictures of things that can be dangerous such as: scissors, knives, ropes, power tools, etc. Write directions for using these items safely.
Look through the newspaper and cut out as many words as you can find that describe size. Paste these onto a piece of paper in order from smallest to largest.
Look through the newspaper and find one example of a long vowel and short vowel sound for each of the five vowels. Clip these words from the newspaper and paste them onto your paper.
Classify comic characters as young/old, male/female, animal/human
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Hi Taran,
Newspapers are a great way to create activities for literacy. The Jersey Journal sponsored workshops on lessons similar to these. I participated in this program about 6 years ago and continued for 2 years. Since then I have been transferred to another school and forgot all about it. Thanks for reminding me. We called these activities scavenger hunts. There were many different types of scavenger hunts, searching for upper and lower case letters, specific words for vocabulary, pictures of specific topics to create a collage, food group identification, creating sentences, and so on. I use to use the newspaper in my classes a lot when I taught Special Needs. The students love it. They can pretend that they are detectives on a crime scene, a nurse looking for nutrition items, or even a farmer looking for his animals. You can make up any scenario and gear the lesson towards hunting for the words, letters or pictures that relate to it. It's a great way to introduce students to the newspaper, using innovative ideas, with a goal and purpose. Of course, the lessons must be age appropriate. You can even use holidays as a basis for your lesson. The Jersey Journal even provided newspapers to the schools that participated each week. They supplied one for each student and teacher, It was a super program. I wonder if they still do that? I'm going to check into it!
Thanks for your input Marianne. I love that The Jersey Journal supplied the newspapers for all of the students and teachers that participated. Great collaboration between the education and business sectors!
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