Links Entry Week 3 - Current Events
Current Events can be such a great activity in a Social Studies classroom. I have enjoyed incorporating them in some way into all of my previous classrooms, both Reading and Social Studies. Current Events can provide opportunity to practice reading, summarizing, debating, drawing conclusions, quoting, vocabulary, search techniques, etc... the skills can go on.
Here are some of the news sites I provide to students to get them started:
CNN - http://www.cnn.com/
NBC News - http://www.nbcnews.com/
Fox News - http://www.foxnews.com/
BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
Al Jazeera - http://america.aljazeera.com/
Student News Daily - http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
Time for Kids - http://www.timeforkids.com/
DOGOnews - http://www.dogonews.com/
I too see the benefits of using current event articles within the classroom. This last year I created an RSS feed for my 4th/5th grade students with several of the sites you included on it. I put the RSS feed into Schoology so that students had access to both it and NewsELA when they were ready to choose an article for the week.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great way for students to have access to appropriate sites! I think that could also be a way to make accommodations for struggling learners in the secondary grades, eases some of the access barriers.
DeleteLove using current event in social studies. Was always looking for new places and sites to hook and engage students. Thanks for posting these:)
ReplyDeleteKaty, it is always a good idea to annotate your lists. It gives the reader some context for why you include some items on the list and not others.
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