Why Use the Newspaper?

Newspapers make learning fun.
Newspapers are easy to use.
Newspapers are extremely flexible and adaptable to all curriculum areas and grade levels.
Newspapers motivate students to read.
Newspapers keep students informed.
Newspapers link students to the real world.
Newspapers are a common community link -a community talking to itself.
Newspapers are an excellent remedial tool with high status as an adult medium.
Newspapers help students understand freedom of the press and other rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
Newspapers are ideal for building many educational skills such as locating information, identifying the main idea of a paragraph, developing better critical thinking skills, understanding cause and effect, recognizing important details, determining accuracy, proof reading, anticipating outcomes, and improving skimming, scanning and surveying skills.
Newspapers build good reading habits.
Newspapers can be cut, marked, clipped, pasted, filed.
Newspapers give everybody something interesting to read.
Newspapers entertain as they teach.
Newspapers are a cost effective way to educate.

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