Category: Literacy

Newseum

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Just thought I would add this as I have been on about teaching newspapers in class. Newseum is a fantastic site giving access to over 500 international newspaper front pages. Click on “Today’s Front Pages” and you can view them all either as a list or as a map which I have done with my class.

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Great for exploring the features of journalistic style and newspaper language features. As a class we even looked at a Russian front page and identified the same language features (Headline, strapline, caption etc) as an English version. This helped (I think…) the kids to understand the universality of the features of a newspaper.

The site though also has some excellent resources for social studies and I will be using the D-Day news feature (pictured above is the front page of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph) to help provide a source of historical information when we study WW2 in our history. The front pages can be zoomed into in the flash feature and explored really easily.

Newspaper clipping generator

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On Thursday night I came across this simple web based tool from David Muir’s post about it – luckily for me I was teaching my class about newspapers last week so I used it on Friday in my literacy lesson. If you have read our class blog you will have noticed we have been doing Dracula as a class text – the kids love it! – and on Thursday and Friday we looked at an event in the story and planned a newspaper article on it. As a class we generated a piece of writing and I typed it into the newspaper clipping generator – the children thought it was great!

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Extension activity in Maths today

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Further to our work on Mina’s journey using Google Earth – I asked some children who had completed the standard addition sums in their maths books to calculate the different distances of Mina’s travels. They used the measure tool in GE 4 to plot her journey from major city to major city – they then applied the addition strategies to work out her total approximate distance.