Kids Newsroom
Our classroom becomes a newsroom!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it… In the Kids' Newsroom, our students learn the craft of journalism including investigative writing and research. Our classroom transforms into a working newsroom, complete with editorial staff, reporters, columnists and headline writers. Each student plays multiple roles and works together to publish their own newspaper with stories about their local school and community.
These reporters learn techniques for crafting news stories, writing persuasive editorial essays and interviewing news-makers. Students edit each other’s work, take photographs and publish their newspaper. Have an idea for a news story? Call our Kids’ Newsroom Hotline today!
In this class students will:
- Learn about the history of newspapers
- Work as part of a team that publishes its own newspaper
- Learn how reporters organize and write stories
- Write news stories on local, national and personal events
- Learn about the difference between editorials and news stories and write their own editorials
- Play a "Headline Hunters" game in which they race to find facts in famous newspaper headlines
- Learn how to revise and edit their own and other reporters' stories
- Help to "publish" the class newspaper
Class Specifications:
- Elementary (Grade 2-5) or Middle School (Grades 6-8) versions available
- 12-hour program (can be offered in a variety of intervals)
- The Kids' Newsroom can be implemented as an after-school program, summer camp or in-class project
- Purchase includes teacher training, unlimited support as program is implemented, lesson plan, powerpoints, project guides and marketing materials
