Week of October 13, 2008: First delivery of classroom set of newspapers.
1. Students complete questionnaire before distribution of newspapers.
2. Organize students into mynews@school groups-4 to 5 students per group.
3. Warm-up/practice-run of how news discussions will proceed. This procedure will be fine-tuned but the free reading, group discussion, and class discussion should always be the foundation.
4. Distribute newspapers with each student receiving a newspaper.
5. Students have 10 minutes of free reading of the newspaper.
6. For 5 minutes, students discuss stories that they found engaging and the reasons why.
7. For 5 minutes, have student-led class discussion on most engaging stories and the reasons why.
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Week 1:
When students were given time to free read the newspaper the most selected items to read were the comics or the horoscopes (remember, I teach 6th graders). When discussed in their groups why they made these selections, they responded that what they read didn't have to do with school and that it made them laugh.
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