English

"Reading comprehension is strongly related to oral language comprehension". (Accessed from OLSEL on Jan 21, 2011)
 * Listening and Comprehension Lessons **

1a. A short lesson on how to actively engage students to read with understanding by questioning the article before and while you are reading it.
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1b. Reading with understanding (Online collaboration using Google Docs)

Features of a newspaper

What is the masthead on the front page of newspaper? What about identifying what a headline, byline, body or caption is within a newspaper article?

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Finding nouns in an article and posting them on sticky notes via Wall Wisher 1a. Use the Australia Day newspaper article

1b. Wallwisher - share your collection of nouns

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Jazz-Up Headlines Let your students select five headlines from the newspaper and ask them to rewrite them, and jazz them up, by using synonyms for the nouns and verbs.

Monsters Wanted Have your students read the Help Wanted ads in the newspaper. Then, pretend they are looking for a monster as a pet. Have them write a Help Wanted ad for the pet monster they want. Draw a picture of the monster to go with the ad.

Quiet Please Have your students look through the newspaper for verbs, adjectives and adverbs that convey a mood for sleeping. Circle those words. Now have them write a paragraph using those words to describe what they do to help themselves fall asleep at night.

Poetry Play Students each use one page of the newspaper to find and circle a word that is an object. Next, have them list five adjectives that could describe that object. After that, list five action verbs. Finally, have them use all the words they listed to write a poem about the word they initially circled.

Cartoon Fun Cut a cartoon strip into frames and get students to put the pictures in correct sequence.

Collage Students can make a collage of pictures and words that all begin with the same letter.

Find a Word Choose a word and write it on the board, then have the students find and circle that word in the newspaper as many times as they can.

Descriptive Writing Ask students to cut out pictures of people and ask them to write a description of how they think that person is feeling.

Name Collage Ask students to cut out the letters of their name from the paper, as well as pictures of things they like and build it into a collage.

Parts of a Newspaper Cut a page of the paper into its different parts (picture, caption, headline, etc) and ask the students to put it back together the way it should be.

Writing an Ad Ask students to write a classified advertisement for something they may want to sell.

Here you will find a collection of activities to support the use of newspapers in your English curriculum. Many have been written for the American market but are very easily adapted.
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 * [[file:Let's Write A Newspaper Story.pdf]] || [[file:Match headlines with photo.doc]] || [[file:Narrative Writing.doc]] || [[file:News_in_a_Nutshell.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:news story checklist.pdf]] || [[file:news story idea organiser.pdf]] || [[file:Newspaper lessons.doc]] || [[file:The Role of a Newspaper.doc]] ||
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 * [[file:Newspapers and Young Children.pdf]] || [[file:Letters to the editor.pdf]] || [[file:Reacting to news pictures.pdf]] || [[file:writingnarrativeprimary.ppt]] ||
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