
December's school vacation is just around the corner, the kids are wound up, so turn students' excitement into true learning with this week's easy-to-manage lesson plans from
Education World.
Short Newspaper Activities for any Day's Edition: Warm-up activities, curriculum extensions, skill builders, literacy games, substitute lessons, or just for fun: this collection of reusable activity sheets in PDF format is one-stop shopping for all of these purposes and more...Each idea below can be used with any day's issue of The New York Times. Many may work with any edition of any daily newspaper.
Holiday Newspaper Scavenger Hunt
Directions: See how many of the following Holiday-related items you can find in your newspaper:
1. A story about someone or a group helping other people
2. An image or cartoon with Santa Claus, Christmas Tree, Menorah or other holiday symbol (extra credit if you find more than one!)
3. Someone who has been naughty
4. Someone who has been nice
5. A place you would like to visit during the holiday break
6. A movie you would like to go see
7. An advertisement of something you would like as a gift
8. An advertisement of something you would like to give to someone else
9. Any headline that includes the word HOLIDAY
10. A story about people celebrating the season
11. A yummy holiday recipe
12. A story or forecast of winter weather
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Persuasive Writing Lesson - In this fun Christmas activity students write to the Grinch describing why they love Christmas (to try to change the Grinch's mind)
Suggest they write this in the form of a newspaper editorial!
Source: HotChalk - Lesson Plans by Teachers for Teachers