Teachers enrolled in this course will...

Know

1. grade level standards and expectations for major curriculum areas.
2. resources available to them as classroom teachers.
3. that working with the newspaper can strengthen students’ ability to work with nonfiction texts.
4. possible methods of differentiation (including newspaper uses for LD and ELL students).

Understand

1. how integrating the newspaper into curriculum areas can increase the number of subjects taught in one day.
2. how integrating the newspaper into daily lessons can impact individual students.
3. how working with the newspaper will develop necessary reading skills that will help students prepare for the state tests.
4. that the newspaper is an invaluable tool that can be used to teach all areas of the curriculum.

and Be Able To

1. identify lessons already taught that can be adapted to using the newspaper.
2. create lessons for different curriculum areas using the newspaper.
3. access and use online newspapers for classroom use.