Hit:Newspaper Ideas

[Marilyn Hample <mhample@CSC.SCTBOCES.ORG>]

Dear Group
   Thanks a million for all the ideas you shared about using the library.
I tried responding to each of you but if I missed anyone, my thanks.  Here
is a list of ideas that you, too, can share with teachers:

Use state and world maps and stick pins to identify places in the news
Create an illustration to go with a story
Use sports scores for math problems
Study careers in journalism
Write a summary of a lead story
Find spelling words
Create word collages from themes
Interview a reporter
Write your own obit (for older students)
Using weather pages, create charts and graphs
Identify parts of speech
Write a news item for a school event (spaghetti dinner/sporting
event/drama event)
Give students hypothetical amount of $ and let them make purchases from
the classified ads.   Also using the classifieds, have students choose a
vehicle or pet and write a first-person narrative about why this is such a
great bargain
Have fun with all these wonderful ideas

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Marilyn D. Hample, LMS
Horseheads School District
Horseheads NY 14845
Ph: 607-739-5601
Fx: 607-739-0044
e-mail:mhample@csc.sctboces.org
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.  O.W. Holmes

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