What is NiE?
Newspapers in Education is about expanding awareness through reading the local newspaper. NiE hopes to initiate discussion on important current affairs that appear in the news and curriculum linked topics.
The Newspapers in Education program consists of educational pages published weekly through-out the school year in APN’s Daily papers. The pages target the middle school and can be used to launch children into research and investigation.
The news can be used to challenge thoughts and opinions, extend literacy capabilities and provide students with life skills. The content of the NiE pages is designed to encourage students and readers to investigate and research additional information through multi-media channels. The program also supplies resources for in classroom activities that support the NiE pages.
What are the benefits?
There are a range of benefits of reading newspapers and using them in the classroom.
Reading the news:-
- increases a student’s vocabulary, word recognition skills and reading comprehension.
- Stimulates independent reading and writing.
- reinforces, enriches, and extends content taught in every subject.
- makes real-world connections by helping students understand the importance of the information that they are learning.
- makes students feel involved and connected to their community.
- enables the ability to directly address important social issues.
- supports the pursuit of interests and hobbies.
The newspaper:-
- can be marked, cut, pasted, coloured - important to students who learn by doing and seeing.
- contains in its news stories the best modes for clear, concise, simple writing.
- is a perfect model for teaching students to write for a purpose and for a particular audience.
- provides relevant visual examples
