Over 27 curriculum guides are provided for teachers to use as an educational tool for their classrooms. Our curriculum guides are written by professional educators from across the country. The following NIE curriculum guides addresses the Essential Academic Learining Requirements in the areas of Reading, Writing, Communications, Social Studies, Civics, Science and Math.

NIE Week Teacher's Guide 2007

Now I Get It!: Improving Comprehension With Newspapers

This guide provides 12 lesson plans, each with accompanying student activity sheets. The lessons are meant to help students develop their comprehension skills.  The material is appropriate for both middle school and high school, as well as special activities for elementary students.

Teacher's Guides for Serial Stories

Hardy Boys: Secret of the Soldier's Gold
Sept. 11 through Dec. 18, 2006
Menace on Horse Creek Trail
Jan. 8 through April 16 2007

ELEMENTARY (K-5)

Newspaper Activity Cards (K-6)
Using all parts of the newspaper for all subject areas.

Reading to Follow Directions (PreK-2)
Beginning readers work on alphabet sounds, sight words & simple sentences with oral directions.

Dinosaurs & the Newspaper (K-5)
72 page guide relates today's world lessons to pre-history.

Teacher Scoop/Kid Scoop
Written by a teacher for teachers. A monthly newsletter created to help teachers use the newspaper more effectively. Special Feature: Weekly Write-In corner. Elementary students are introduced to several writing styles through the weekly write-in topics. Have your school recognized on this page in The Wenatchee World.

ELEMENTARY-INTERMEDIATE (5-8)

Using the Newspaper in Upper Elementary/Middle Grades (6-8)
94 page guide w/10 lessons per section - student worksheets cover language arts, science, math, social studies.

Math News (5-8)
Use newspapers to study math and thinking skills according to newly developed mathematics instruction standards.

Geography in the Newspaper (6-12)
This guide is intended to help the teacher teach geography based on world events as they are occurring. It invites students to question, probe and analyze news articles.

Ideas! Ideas! (K-12)
Potpourri of ideas for using the newspaper as a teaching tool.

Creating A Classroom Newspaper (5-12)
Basic Newspaper writing activities are student-directed with easy to follow lesson plans.

INTERMEDIATE-SECONDARY (9-12)

USA WEEKEND Teacher's Guide (6-12)
USA WEEKEND'S Teacher's Guides are available FREE every week online through The Wenatchee World's NIE web-page at www.wenworld.com. Download and print the guides directly with Acrobat Reader or they are available from the NIE Manager. Can be used with any edition of the newspaper.

Using the Newspaper in Secondary Mathematics (9-12)
13 pages using computation skills, expressing quantitative relationships and organizing data from tables, charts or graphs.

Using the Newspaper in Secondary Science (9-12)
Provides secondary science teachers with classroom activities in a concise format.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts (6-12)
57 pages of reproducible worksheets cover: language arts foundations, literature and speech.

Using the Newspaper in Secondary Social Studies (6-12)
Reproducible worksheets covering history, economics, government and general social studies. Many extra activities.

Civic Education in the Newspaper (9-12)
50 activities cover history, government, economics and geography. Covers nuclear proliferation, foreign policy, first amendment protection, laws and society, free market system, etc.

Newspaper Career Guide (9-12)
Explores the many job opportunities available at a newspaper.

Talking About Freedom - The First Amendment (9-12)
Series of 8 educational print ads for teens, ranging from dress codes to censorship of school newspapers, making the First Amendment relevant to young people.

Messages & Meaning - A Guide to Understanding Media (9-12)
Understanding media messages by accessing, analyzing, evaluating and communicating.

Challenges & Choices (9-12)
Covers the challenges of the information explosion, citizenship, personal well-being, arts and the future. 35 pages.

Consumer Choices and Spending (6-12)
Students apply reading, writing, math and critical thinking to the real world. Covers taxes, credit and making tough choices.

SPECIAL EDUCATION

Special Education and Cooperative Learning (K-12)
Exercises that promote teamwork and cooperation in an 82 page format organized on four competency levels.

ADULT EDUCATION

The Newspaper: Your Key To A Better Living
Teach reading, vocabulary and life skills to either the adult learner or remedial student at any grade level. Especially useful for ESL programs.

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

ESL, The newspaper and the classroom
Many activities in all subject areas designed to use the entire newspaper in the ESL classroom.

NIE SPECIAL SECTIONS

16 page supplements previously published in the Wenatchee World.

• What's In A Word
• Taking Care of Our Earth
• Are There Any Volunteers?
• E2K - Election 2000
• Read Well - Write Well
• Extra! Extra!
• Count on Character
• Ocean's of Fun
• Understanding The World of Weather
• From The Ground Up: Agriculture In America