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By using NiE mini newspapers in your classroom you will:
- Encourage critical literacy and social inquiry.
- Encourage reading comprehension and information skills, such as skimming and scanning, brainstorming and questioning.
- Help your students ask and understand rich questions.
- Save yourself valuable time by covering the key competencies and essential skills through your NiE programme.
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Each mini newspaper includes:
- Close reading
- Problem solving activities
- Critical thinking activities
- Engaging visuals
- Processing information
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They model:
- Report writing
- Caption writing
- Persuasive writing
- Transactional writing
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Using our NiE programme in a variety of ways in your literacy programme ensures English objectives along with the key competencies are covered. For example: |
Thinking – Many of the NiE text-based activities include thinking skills which are a major focus in schools today – also graphic organisers, thinker’s keys and questioning levels, such as Bloom’s Taxonomy questions. |
Using language, symbols and texts – Infographics, photographs, cartoons, maps, symbols and keys all feature in our mini newspapers regularly. |
Managing self – Through completion of text-based tasks and being an integral part of a group/class. |
Relating to others – Working with others in a group session or with a buddy on text-based tasks.
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Participating and contributing – Daily guided reading and writing where students can engage with text that is of high interest. |
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