Learning with the Newspaper in the Classroom (and later at home!)

The colorful Kid Scoop page initially looks like fun, and it is! But Kid Scoop is educationally-sound fun. Kid Scoop is written to connect its reading, writing, and discovery projects to important learning standards. Many teachers incorporate Kid Scoop into their lesson plans by subject area and reading development practice. The Kid Scoop Teacher Guide is chock-full of specific ways to boost children’s enthusiasm for reading.

Here are some ways to connect Kid Scoop in the classroom with Kid Scoop later at home:

Use Kid Scoop in the classroom, then send the page home along with the school-delivered newspaper you’ve used in your lesson plans.

Parent Involvement: Teachers have discovered that parents who are learning English find Kid Scoop vocabulary words easier to read and understand. Have children underline some words on the Kid Scoop page to discuss with their family at home.

More Parent Involvement: The Kid Scoop weekly page helps parents learn subject areas right along with their children. Kid Scoop topics about geography, science, and history help immigrant parents discover more about America. Tell children to talk about these subjects with their parents at home. Tell children to read aloud information they find especially interesting.

Community Involvement: Parents have noticed that the Kid Scoop printed page at home gives children a different kind of learning experience beyond video. Kid Scoop activities spark their interest in other parts of the newspaper, to find out more about sports, the arts, and facts about their home town.

Kid Scoop in the local newspaper invites children to become part of their community, to become future leaders, to contribute to democracy in action. Suggest children read about a local place in the newspaper, then go there! Ask them to write about what they saw and heard and bring their writing to school to share.

Check out how the parts of the Kid Scoop page engage children in the magic of reading. Go to the Anatomy of a Kid Scoop Page.