New ReviewMedia lovers read articles on a variety of current events with a website made especially for kids. The website is easy to navigate and includes sections about everything from science to sports.

How did radio and television impact media literacy? Explore the rise of protectionism using a video, part of a Crash Course media literacy series. Scholars discover the social, moral, and political sides of media analysis and criticism.

Big news isn't necessarily newsworthy everywhere! How do journalists decide what to cover with so much happening around them? A instructional activity on media literacy examines the factors that affect the media's choice of stories to...

Fact or opinion? Challenge class members to find headlines and articles that have facts and opinions related to health, money, weather, and more in a scavenger hunt worksheet.

Extra! Extra! Read all about past and present energy use in a classroom-made historical newspaper. Useful as a cross-curricular assignment between science, history, and language arts, the project is sure to get young journalists...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it in a classroom newspaper! Class members take on the role of a journalist to report on a topic based on an event at school, in the community, or an image found in a magazine or newspaper. 

Extra, extra, read all about it! Use a newspaper as the primary resource in a special education classroom to teach reading, writing, and math skills. The activities help class members build their reading skills as well as their knowledge...

No matter what subject you're teaching, you'll find some fun and innovative ideas for using newspapers in your classroom with a helpful resource. Based on Getting the Most Out of Teaching with Newspapers by Rebecca Olien, the series of...

Get the scoop with a fun, engaging newspaper project. After analyzing the parts of a newspaper, including the headline, subtitles, and pictures or images, young journalists get to work by writing their own stories in a newspaper article...

Extra extra! Join the newspaper business with a series of lessons and exercises focused on elements of journalism. The packet focuses on distinguishing fact from opinion, writing effective headlines, sequencing events, and editing and...

Here's a must-see video. The topic—circular reporting, or the intentional spreading and leaking of false information. The big idea here is to teach viewers to recognize and avoid contributing to the cycle.

Analyze the presence of negative stereotypes and biased reporting in news media, and how this affects one's understanding of other cultures. Learners read newspaper excerpts and quotes from famous personalities to discuss the power of...

How can the media foster cultural misunderstandings? These activities encourage learners to distinguish between fact and opinion in the media

A respected source of local and global news, you can trust this app to provide breaking stories and current events. The interface is highly visual and easy to navigate.

Combine informational text and creative writing with one fun activity! Middle and high schoolers write found poems based on newspaper headlines that they find. The resource includes a thorough lesson plan and many links to articles that...

Does your class know anything about the secretary-general of the United Nations? They can test themselves on what they know by answering one question about the first UN leader.

Students explore headlines from the New York Times. In this World War II lesson, students research events of the war as they examine archives of the New York Times newspaper.

Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. For this news-writing lesson, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and work in groups to...

For this newspaper headlines worksheet, students fill in the blank with the appropriate word in the newspaper headline. Students fill in the blank for 10 headlines.

In this headlines worksheet, students read the example headlines. Students put a tick next to the quality headlines and cross out the bad headlines.

In this news writing worksheet, students cut out their choice of words from a newspaper to create an interesting headline. Students write the news story that would go with their headline.

In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders read about the purpose of newspapers and about how headlines indicate what is in a newspaper. They use a set of newspaper headlines to answer 15 associated questions.