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5th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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2012
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Current Event Report

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Make sure your class spends some time paying attention to the news by asking individuals to report on a current event. Using this sheet, pupils write down the title, source, and date before composing a brief summary and a personal response to the story.

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Concepts

current events, news media

Additional Tags

current events, personal response, news, social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Assign one current events report each week or every other week and have a news day for everyone to share
  • Use this as an extension of a lesson about summary and provide some sentence frames for learners who need more support

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Printables

Current Event Report

Curated OER
Here is a well-designed worksheet that is used for writing a summary of an article on a current event. After writing the summary, learners are then asked to write a personal response to the article. Responses include answers as to why...
4th - 8th English Language Arts
Worksheet

Social Studies Current Event Worksheet

Curated OER
Who, what, when, where, why, and how. This current events activity uses the traditional news article format and asks reviewers to record information included in a self-selected, current events article. Class members then use the...
7th - 12th Social Studies & History
Lesson Plan

Science Current Events

Curated OER
Seventh graders write science current events articles using various media sources.
7th Social Studies & History
Organizer

My Guide to Current Events

Educators Publishing Service
Keep your youngsters abreast of current events with these activity worksheets! Or, consider what historical events throughout early American history would have looked like on a national newspaper? Your young historians will become...
5th - 11th Social Studies & History
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Current Event Project

Curated OER
One of the best ways to make history relevant and engaging is to analyze current events before they become history! Check out these project guidelines for a current event research paper, outlining the major required sections of...
4th - 12th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

New Gun Control Politics: A Whimper, Not a Bang

Curated OER
Using an article from The New York Times, students answer discussion questions about gun control. They are divided into four groups to research different standpoints on gun control, including the Executive Office, Congress, Gun...
6th - 12th Social Studies & History
Lesson Plan

Reader Idea | Thinking Like a Historian About Current World Events

The New York Times
Check out this fantastic research project where learners work to see the modern world through the eyes of a historian and analyze a contemporary event of their choice. An in-depth reflection on the project is given by the project...
7th - 12th Social Studies & History
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Greed is Good?

Curated OER
From Mr. Merdle to Mr. Madoff? A viewing of the PBS adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit” launches an examination of greedy characters in literature and a study of greed, unfairness, and economic hardship today. The richly...
7th - 12th English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

The Achievements and Challenges of Zimbabwe

Curated OER
Here is an excellent set of five short lessons and activities intended to help learners not only gain an understand of current issues in Africa, but build critical thinking, synthesis, analysis, expository writing, research, and...
9th - 12th Social Studies & History
Lesson Plan

Bank Loans Money to Start Businesses

Curated OER
After locating Latin American countries on a world map, children read about how microbanks are loaning money to help start small businesses. Involving both current events and economics, the teacher introduces the article with a map...
4th - 6th Social Studies & History
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