For more ideas and teaching suggestions using the newspaper, refer to our new activity booklet News IQ. It is filled with many photocopiable activities you can give to students to encourage meaningful exploration and responses to current affairs and issues in their newspapers. Lessons are prepared, activities are ready to pick up and use.
Deadline is another resource that is available. Students learn about newspaper layout and design skills by playing the game where they assemble a front page of the newspaper.
Use the News is an excellent resource. It is jam-packed with activities and ideas on how to use the newspaper in your class.
If you don’t have a copy of these resources, contact your local NiE co-ordinator to order one.
If you are after more interactive activities and your students have access to a class or school computer, try Nikki’s News Diary and Front Page Builder.
Teaching suggestions
• Brainstorm where students get their news from. Compare with older brothers and sisters and parents. Note the differences.
• Brainstorm different types of news media and sources of information and news. Classify each type.
• Have a news pin board in your classroom. Cut out the headlines from the newspaper and have students write the story.
• Have a session on developing interviewing skills. Discuss the different types of questions and questioning. Include the 5 ‘W’ and the ‘H’ questions, open and closed questions and leading questions. Provide the students with a series of questions (or get them to write their own) and categorise them questions according to the type and effectiveness (probing).
• Students can interview someone and write a news article based on the interview.
• Students can make a class or school newspaper. By doing this they can learn how to investigate a news story, take pictures, write news articles and layout conventions. Watch Design a Front Page video tutorials on NiE TV on our website. www.nieonline.co.nz/nietv Click on the ‘How to’ tab.
• Compare radio, television news and newspapers (print and online) journalistic style. What are the similarities and differences? Discuss which skills are required in the different mediums. Compare how different mediums cover a particular news item. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each medium?
• Look at other jobs in the newspaper industry such as the editor, photographers, graphic artists and advertising sales staff. NiE has a set of posters about the newspaper industry to support this task. Ask your NiE coordinator for a set.
• Hold a weekly current affairs quiz. Your students could take turns writing these.
• Have students complete the on-line current affairs quiz on this website each week. Track weekly results.
• Discuss how technological advances are affecting news delivery and style of news reporting.
• Brainstorm where students get their news from. Compare with older brothers and sisters and parents. Note the differences.
• Brainstorm different types of news media and sources of information and news. Classify each type.
• Have a news pin board in your classroom. Cut out the headlines from the newspaper and have students write the story.
• Have a session on developing interviewing skills. Discuss the different types of questions and questioning. Include the 5 ‘W’ and the ‘H’ questions, open and closed questions and leading questions. Provide the students with a series of questions (or get them to write their own) and categorise them questions according to the type and effectiveness (probing).
• Students can interview someone and write a news article based on the interview.
• Students can make a class or school newspaper. By doing this they can learn how to investigate a news story, take pictures, write news articles and layout conventions. Watch Design a Front Page video tutorials on NiE TV on our website. www.nieonline.co.nz/nietv Click on the ‘How to’ tab.
• Compare radio, television news and newspapers (print and online) journalistic style. What are the similarities and differences? Discuss which skills are required in the different mediums. Compare how different mediums cover a particular news item. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each medium?
• Look at other jobs in the newspaper industry such as the editor, photographers, graphic artists and advertising sales staff. NiE has a set of posters about the newspaper industry to support this task. Ask your NiE coordinator for a set.
• Hold a weekly current affairs quiz. Your students could take turns writing these.
• Have students complete the on-line current affairs quiz on this website each week. Track weekly results.
• Discuss how technological advances are affecting news delivery and style of news reporting.
Websites
For the latest news information and updates go to your local newspaper website.
For the latest news information and updates go to your local newspaper website.
Some APN newspaper websites in New Zealand
www.nzherald.co.nz
www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz
www.northernadvocate.co.nz
www.dailypost.co.nz
www.hbtoday.co.nz
www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz
www.times-age.co.nz
www.nzherald.co.nz
www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz
www.northernadvocate.co.nz
www.dailypost.co.nz
www.hbtoday.co.nz
www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz
www.times-age.co.nz
Television and radio websites have news information, entertainment, online blogs and video clips. The links below take you to TVNZ, TV3 and Radio New Zealand.
http://tvnz.co.nz/
http://www.tv3.co.nz/
http://www.radionz.co.nz/
http://tvnz.co.nz/
http://www.tv3.co.nz/
http://www.radionz.co.nz/