Searchby Ellen Creane
Newspaper circulation includes readers with many different careers and businesses serving the community. Home and commercial construction, repair, remodeling and real estate are foundations of newspaper advertising. The need to develop professionals in these industries is critical. To introduce young readers to careers, Kid Scoop has created a series of career pages beginning with HVAC, plumbing, carpentry, and electrical. These pages offer ongoing sponsorship opportunities to bolster revenue for your newspaper.
Remember that day when you had a water leak and the plumber starting wrenching and soldering pipes. Your children gathered to watch … and ask questions. The kids were there by the fence wide-eyed when carpenters lifted the big wall frame on the new house rising next door. And remember seeing a child’s face light up when a fire truck rolled by?
All children are curious about the world of work and start dreaming about their future at a young age.
The new career pages from Kid Scoop are more than information about how to learn a career and what tools to use. Kid Scoop pages teach required skills in reading, writing, math, and science using fun games, puzzles, word searches, challenging brain twisters, and amazing facts about the individual career on each page. The young readers of your newspaper leap from the Kid Scoop page into articles about the latest construction in your town, the cost of building that new factory nearby, and how a reporter finds out why the apartment caught fire. Children acquire new vocabulary and develop analytical reading skills on these career pages.
The Kid Scoop Teacher Guide, provided free to teachers using the Kid Scoop pages in your newspaper, inspires teamwork in the classroom, too.
Kid Scoop welcomes suggestions for careers to feature in the continuing series. Send us a list of the careers needed most in your town. Ask the children for their suggestions, too. We’d love to hear what careers they are dreaming of.
