Students become newsroom detectives exploring the e-Edition to find missing voices and create their own news stories.
A quick, engaging activity where students evaluate a news article’s author, sources, and tone to determine its credibility and spot signs of bias.
Evaluate a news article by examining its origin, purpose, value, and limitations.
Explore censorship by reading about Art Spiegelman's graphic novel, Maus. Article can be accessed here
Explore the key components of a newspaper and how they work together.
Learn how to identify the who, what, when, where, why, and how of a news story.
Build familiarity with common newspaper and journalism terminology.
A creative newspaper activity where students turn real news stories into comic strips, helping them summarize, reflect, and express understanding through visual storytelling.
A 15-minute activity where students find a meaningful news story and write a short “thank you” note to the people or community members featured, highlighting why the story matters.
Students condense a news article into a 60-second recording, then listen to each other’s summaries to identify key points and check for accuracy.
Explore the different sections of a newspaper and the writing styles used in each.
Learn how news reporting differs from opinion and editorial writing.
Unraveling Bias in News Reporting
Learn how to recognize potential bias in news coverage.
Explore the ethical dilemmas journalists encounter
Review common newspaper terms with a fun word search!
A fast-paced, game-style newspaper scavenger activity that gets students exploring real news, building media literacy skills, and having fun.
A quick 15-minute activity where students scan the newspaper for interesting headlines, choose one to read, and write a short summary of why it matters.
