ONLINE MAGAZINES
Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Time
http://www.time.com/time/
U.S. News
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm

LESSON PLANS AND TEACHER RESOURCES
25 Ideas for Teaching Current Events
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson072.shtml
Great ideas for connecting current events to all subjects.
Beginning Reporting
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-jeh/BeginningReporting/Introduction/home.htm
A website for beginning reporters and their teachers.
Get Writing With “Weekend News!”
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=102
This "weekend news" writing activity gives students the opportunity to recall personal events and write about them. (Grades K-2)
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=249
Lessons guide students through the process of developing a classroom newspaper. (Grades 3-5)
On The Inside
 http://www.writesite.org/
Take an interactive online tour through the world of newspapers and journalism.
(Grades 5-8)
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=212
This lesson introduces students to the concept of intermediality—the ability to critically read and write across varied symbol systems—to help them broaden their notions of texts and literacies. (Grades 9-12)
Newspapers in Education
http://nieonline.com/detroit/index.cfm
http://content.fredericksburg.com/nie/introducing.htm
Resources to help teach your students that reading the newspaper is an important life skill.  Includes many lesson ideas.  (Grades K-12)
How Newspapers Work
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/newspaper.htm
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the increasingly complex business of running a newspaper.

Media/Technology Staff Development  MSD Perry Township