About Newspapers in Education
Newspapers in Education is a program designed to promote and enhance the use of newspapers in the classroom. This inexpensive and always up to date text can be used for any grade level or subject area. The newspaper gives students a daily lesson in geography, economics, math, technology, science and social studies. It provides real life and real time lessons from right in their own backyard, or can take students around the world.
Newspapers are just the beginning of the NIE experience. We provide teachers at all levels, from kindergarten to adult education, with the tools to provide new ideas and programs that they can use in the classroom. Most importantly, NIE programs have been proven to improve reading and writing skills in students and young people who read the newspaper regularly are more likely to vote, volunteer and engage in community expression.
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- Newspapers are an adult medium. Students are proud to be seen reading the newspaper.
- A newspaper deals in reality, in what is happening here and now. Motivation for reading and for discussions are built-in.
- Students who use newspapers in the classroom tend to talk with their peers and their parents about what they read.
- It bridges the gap between the classroom and the "real" world outside.
- Newspaper use in classes increases students’ interest in and knowledge of current events.
You can help
Donate your newspapers to NIE while you are on vacation
You can make a difference to local schools with this generous gesture.
When you call the Journal Pioneer to stop your paper during vacation time, ask our representative to donate the cost of your paper to Newspapers in Education. We will put the value of your newspapers into our NIE fund used to provide the Journal Pioneer to local classrooms at no charge. For each newspaper you donate, you put 4 papers into a local classroom. Our students are the winners!
To make a vacation donation call the circulation desk at 432-8208.
Become a Sponsor
Even at a discounted rate for classroom use, school budgets are often stretched too thin to be able to provide this valuable learning tool for our students. Schools depend on the generosity of sponsors like you! To show our appreciation to our sponsors we have a complete sponsorship package allowing supporters to get involved at a variety of levels.
• Gold Level, $5,000 to $7,500
• Silver Level, $2,000 to $4,999
• Bronze Level, $500 to $1,999
For information on sponsorship and the appreciation package that accompanies each level, please contact Joelene Spencer at 629-6000 ext 6086 or email jspencer@theguardian.pe.ca. You can also download the form and return it to the address provided.
- It contains history as it happens, reported as completely and as objectively as is humanly possible.
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- Newspapers are the ideal text for individualized instruction because it contains something for every student.
- It contains practical vocabulary, the words students will use over and over again throughout their lives.
- Newspapers can be marked, cut, pasted, coloured — important to young children who learn by doing and seeing.
- It contains in its news stories the best modes for clear, concise, simple writing.
- It is the perfect model for teaching students to write for a purpose and for a particular audience.
- It is the only up-to-date social studies text there is.
- It is the only text the majority of students will continue to read throughout their lives. Students who use newspapers in their classes tend to become adult newspaper readers.
