Newspapers

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book's organ ization
• The author and series editor
• Foreword
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• 1 Working creatively with newspapers
• A short chapter inviting teachers to take stock of their existing knowledge and think about the kinds of new ideas that could be introduced into the classroom
• 2 Building confidence and familiarity (30 activities)
• Activities designed to make students feel that they can handle newspapers
• 3 Working with texts (22 activities)
• Text-based activities which require extensive, discriminating, authentic reading
• 4 Working with pictures (15 activities)
• Matching activities which treat texts and pictures as complementary and in a parallel relationship
• 5 Project work (14 activities)
• A range of ideas for project work, some requiring half a day's work, and others several days or even weeks
• 6 Personal responses (19 activities)
• Activities which bring together responses to newspaper materials and personal experiences, memories, and feelings
• Appendix
• Bibliography