Teach Kids News

Teach Kids News!

    Today, I discovered a great new website that can be very well incorporated into the Daily 5; read to self, read to someone, listen to reading centers. The website is called Teach Kids News. Teach Kids News publishes up to date real life stories in kid friendly language. Grade specific articles are also available as well as specific subject area stories. After reading an article either to themselves, someone else or just listening to others, students can write about what they learn in their journal or discuss it among each other. Another idea is for students in one group to read the article and then leave comments on post it notes for the next group. This will allow the teacher to see who is writing thick or thin questions or see students who are posting superficial comments, or meaty comments. A great way to gather data and make assessments about students. 

    This website can also be used as a great start up activity for the week and incorporated into work on writing as well as word work Daily 5 or literacy centers. Depending on the age group, this could also lead into a writing activity where students become newspaper reporters and write their own article.

    In our Grade 3 class we decided we would incorporate Teach Kids News into our work on writing center. Students created wanted ads to be published in the newspaper based on characters from fairy tales we have been reading in class. Our fairy tale unit is coming to an end so we thought this was a unique way to culminate some of the stories we have heard. Here are some samples of our work: 

    Teach Kids News is relevant not only because there are so many ways to incorporate it into the curriculum, but also due to the fact that it allows students to become acquainted with what’s happening in their community and the world.

www.teachkidsnews.com