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**The lesson PDF files are large, so they will take a while to download.

Elementary Resources

ABCs of NIE

Take your students through an A-Z tour of the newspaper. For each letter of the alphabet, there’s a wonderful NIE lesson and a fantastic illustration. There’s also lots of room for students to interact with the newspaper and to react in writing to what they’re reading.

Learn to Write

Boost student assessment scores and help prepare students for higher education and life. With the newspaper as a model, this supplement offers detailed instruction on how to improve expository writing, creative writing, opinion writing, descriptive writing and more. Practical activities show students how to get to the point, recognize key details and pick the best words for the best results.

Scientists Toolbox

You will meet eight scientists. Each will tell you about a different field and answer questions in that area. You will also read about how technology is involved in each field.

Fields to Fridge

Your students will learn about plants, insects, fruits and vegetables, nutrition, and a lot more! They will have fun and learn about agriculture in Ventura County. They will learn that agriculture is the science and art of farming from cultivating the soil, planting and raising the crops, to harvesting and getting the crops to market. Our youth editorial board spent part of the summer learning about agriculture in Ventura County and writing this supplement is just for your students.


Secondary Resources

The Power & Glory: The Constitution

This supplement covers the Bill of Rights to freedom of the press.

Making the Right Money Moves

This is a personal finance literacy supplement to help students learn basic money management skills. This fun supplement will teach students the value of a budget and balancing a checkbook.

Mock Trial: The Law

Law makes sense to students when they see how it works in their daily lives—at school, in the home and on the street. And its lessons last when taught through favorite cartoon characters! Even the youngest student can have fun exploring such lofty concepts as liberty, justice, equality and fairness when they are presented in familiar situations drawn from popular culture.

Fish on Your Dish

This educational supplement about local commercial fisheries is written by kids for kids! The youth editorial board, the Fin-atic Reporters, fully submerged themselves into the world of commercial fisheries of the Santa Barbara Channel and region to produce this newspaper. They did the research, wrote the articles, and identified artwork and games to make this newspaper a fun learning experience. Now your students will learn about commercial fishing operations, factors affecting fisheries, fish and shellfish of the local waters and more.

You can also visit these links for additional resources:

Compare Today’s Front Pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp

Cartoons for the classroom

http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm

World of Wonder calendar and lessons plans

http://www.comics.com/WoW/

National Geographic Education

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/

My Wonderful World

http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/

Vocabulary University

http://www.vocabulary.com/

Book Adventure

http://www.bookadventure.com/

National Institute for Literacy

http://www.nifl.gov/

The National Center for Family Literacy

http://www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.1204561/k.BD7C/Home.htm

Literature for Learning and Shared Reading

http://www.embracingthechild.com/

Ventura County Reading Association

http://www.vcrareading.org/

Parade Classroom

http://www.paradeclassroom.com/

The newspaper is a living textbook that covers history in the making for today’s students and tomorrow’s leaders.

The newspaper is a tool that will help you assess your student’s competencies. You can address these major standards:

  • Reading comprehension
  • Vocabulary development
  • Sentence structure
  • Grammar
  • Literacy response and analysis
  • Communication
  • Number sense
  • Measurement and geometry
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Chronological thinking
  • Historical interpretation
  • Continuity and change
  • Earth sciences