100 WAYS TO USE THE NEWSPAPER
Newspapers
Students look closely at the newspaper as they learn the difference between a headline, a byline and a dateline, and why the Sports and food sections talk a different language.
- According to the index, what pages are the following found on: classified ads, amusements, stock market listings, advice column, editorial page.
- Find the following information: If you wanted to start a subscription to the newspaper, what telephone number would you call and what would a year's subscription cost? Who is the editor of the newspaper? What wire services can you find listed in the newspaper?
- Clip and label an example of each of the following: index, byline, cutline, dateline and headline.
- Find a newspaper article that is about each of the following: a meeting of a government agency, a press conference, a disaster or unexpected happening, the schools.
- Find five stories from different cities in your state. Then find five stories from different states and five stories from different countries.
- Project yourself into society in which there are no newspapers. Make a list of all the functions provided by the newspapers, including such things as providing news, serving as an advertising medium, social announcements, upcoming events, critical reviews, etc. How would each of these functions be met in the newspaperless society?
- Scan your newspaper and name some of the beats covered by reporters. If you were a reporter, what beat would you like to cover and why?
- Look at the weather map in the newspaper. Study the various symbols that are used to show the weather across the county.
- Make a chart showing examples of the vocabulary variations that appear I different sections of the newspapers. For instance, the jargon used by the food editor and sports editor would probably be quite different.
- Find examples of editorials that are written to: inform the reader, interpret the news for the reader, entertain the reader, influence the reader.
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