Answer:
MAIN NEWS invites students to explore the day’s international, national and local stories offering current and challenging information about people, places and events in the news.
The diversity of the MAIN NEWS section makes it ideal for supporting and responding to many areas within the school curriculum. The language arts components are obvious: reading articles and advertising, responding to the reading through writing, discussing readings and writings. The national and world-wide scope of MAIN NEWS articles also offer a rich resource for reinforcing the study of civics, politics, world cultures and geography. Real-life applications of mathematics concepts and strategies can be created using the advertising, the Economy & Business news, even the datelines. Science connections abound in the Environment page in Monday’s newspaper.
The exercises developed around the MAIN NEWS section have students work with and respond to science news, news abstracts, pictures and illustrations, editorial commentary, federal government activity, reporters’ journals and advertising.
Some learners may be ready to respond to one or more of the various levels of exercises developed around these MAIN NEWS features. However, the success of other students may depend upon a careful introduction to the concepts and issues characterizing this section of the paper. For these students, it will be important to create a concept and vocabulary base to assist in their comprehension of and response to MAIN NEWS. Given time to browse through the section, students’ understanding of MAIN NEWS would benefit from a discussion prompted by questions such as:
Explanation:
What types of people and events are shown in MAIN NEWS photos? Do you recognize any people?
-Do you recognize any places shown?
-Where have you seen these people/ places before?
-What is news?
-What are the news headlines? Have you heard about these news stories before? Where?
-Which headlines trace “on-going” news? Which report sudden, unexpected events?
-What kind of advertising is featured? Distinguish a classified ad from a display ad.
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