This book is a guide to using the newspaper as an instructional tool in the classroom. The objectives are to help students become informed about and interested in what is happening in the world; to learn to read the newspaper intelligently; to help students realize the impact of newspapers on the public; to develop within the students a lasting interest in the reading of newspapers; and to increase and strengthen the skills acquired in other subject areas, especially those in the language arts and social studies. The handbook includes information about how the newspaper is constructed, the function of different newspaper sections, newspaper terminology, propaganda and the newspaper, news reports, editorials, sports, comics, freedom of the press, and the history of the "Rocky Mountain News." Also included are various activities for social studies, language arts, non-readers and beginning readers, science, math, foreign language, and art. (TS)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Guides - General
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- ACTIVITIES 9
- 1 0 10
- NEWSPAPER TERMINOLOGY 12
- ACTIVITIES 13
- 1 5 15
- ACTIVITIES 23
- HEADLINES 25
- ACTIVITIES 25
- ACTIVITIES 27
- HOMEWORK 29
- ACTIVITIES 34
- ACTIVITIES 35
- EDITOR. 35
- ACTIVITIES 37
- ADDITIONAL EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES 37
- ACTIVITIES 40
- ACTIVITIES 52
- OBITUARIES 58
- ACTIVITIES 58
- THE NEWSPAPER 59
- ACTIVITIES 62
- COLORADOS FIRST NEWSPAPER 64
- ACTIVITIES 82
- PRINTERS JARGON 91
