Curriculum Guides
Over 27 curriculum guides are provided for teachers to use as an educational tool for their classrooms. Our curriculum guides are written by professional educators from across the country. The following NIE curriculum guides addresses the Essential Academic Learning Requirements in the areas of Reading, Writing, Communications, Social Studies, Civics, Science and Math.
The following Curriculum Guides can be downloaded (where indicated), be picked up at the Mission Street office, or mailed upon request. There is a $3.00 postage and handling fee per order.
Teacher's Guides for Serial Stories
ELEMENTARY (K-5)
Newspaper Activity Cards (K-6)
Easy to use and implement in the classroom. Individual activity cards which use all parts of the newspaper for all subject areas. Published by Kid Scoop.
Kid Scoop Lessons (www.kidscoop.com)
Reading to Follow Directions (PreK-2)
Beginning readers work on alphabet sounds, sight words & simple sentences with oral directions.
Reading First (download here)
Target Date - USA (download here)
Dinosaurs & the Newspaper (K-5)
72-page guide relates today's world lessons to pre-history.
ELEMENTARY-INTERMEDIATE (5-8)
NIE Week 2008 Teacher's Guide
Activities in the teacher's guide are designed to help middle-school and high-school students improve their reading comprehension by making connections to self, to the world and to text through newspaper activities. The newspaper is the perfect resource for helping students make these connections because it matches their prior knowledge, interests and experiences.
The 62-page guide features 14 lesson plans, each with a student activity sheet. Also included in the guide are 14 elementary-level pages for younger students. They parallel the lesson plans and activities in the guide and focus on local and community news.
Maintain the Brain (download here)
Now I Get It!: Improving Comprehension With Newspapers (download here)
Using the Newspaper in Upper Elementary/Middle Grades (6-8)
94 page guide w/10 lessons per section - student worksheets cover language arts, science, math, and social studies.
Math News (5-8)
Use newspapers to study math and thinking skills according to newly developed mathematics instruction standards.
Geography in the Newspaper (6-12)
This guide is intended to help the teacher teach geography based on world events as they are occurring. It invites students to question, probe and analyze news articles.
Ideas! Ideas! (K-12) A potpourri of ideas for using the newspaper as a teaching tool.
Parent Newspaper Guide (download here).
Creating a Classroom Paper (download here).
Press Ahead (download here).
Word Scramble (download here).
Newspaper Scavenger Hunt (download here).
By the Numbers (download here)
Mathematical Connections in newspapers for the Middle Grades.
High Five (download here)
The integrated language arts and journalism curriculum for middle school students.
INTERMEDIATE-SECONDARY (9-12)
USA WEEKEND Teacher's Guides (6-12) FREE downloadable classroom materials where teachers can receive weekly Teacher's Guides and find tips on using the newspaper in the classroom. Updated weekly with previous plans in archive. Goto USA Weekend's classroom site at usaweekend.com/classroom.
Using the Newspaper in Secondary Mathematics (9-12)
13 pages using computation skills, expressing quantitative relationships and organizing data from tables, charts or graphs.
Using the Newspaper in Secondary Science (9-12)
Provides secondary science teachers with classroom activities in a concise format.
Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts (6-12)
57 pages of reproducible worksheets cover: language arts foundations, literature and speech.
Using the Newspaper in Secondary Social Studies (6-12)
Reproducible worksheets covering history, economics, government and general social studies. Many extra activities
.Civic Education in the Newspaper (9-12)
50 activities cover history, government, economics and geography. Covers nuclear proliferation, foreign policy, first amendment protection, laws and society, free market system, etc.
Citizens Together (download here)
Newspaper Career Guide (9-12)
Explores the many job opportunities available at a newspaper.
Talking About Freedom - The First Amendment (9-12)
Series of 8 educational print ads for teens, ranging from dress codes to censorship of school newspapers, making the First Amendment relevant to young people.
Messages & Meaning - A Guide to Understanding Media (9-12)
Understanding media messages by accessing, analyzing, evaluating and communicating.
Speaking of the Press (download here)
Challenges & Choices (9-12)
Covers the challenges of the information explosion, citizenship, personal well-being, arts and the future. 35 pages.
Consumer Choices and Spending (6-12)
Students apply reading, writing, math and critical thinking to the real world. Covers taxes, credit and making tough choices.
Hispanic Heritage (download here)
Hispanic American history and sociology.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Special Education and Cooperative Learning (K-12)
Exercises that promote teamwork and cooperation in an 82-page format organized on four competency levels.
ADULT EDUCATION
The Newspaper: Your Key To A Better Living
Teach reading, vocabulary and life skills to either the adult learner or remedial student at any grade level. Especially useful for ESL programs.
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
ESL, The newspaper and the classroom.
Many activities in all subject areas designed to use the entire newspaper in the ESL classroom.