INCORPORATING NEWSPAPER IN CLASS-ROOM TEACHING
Newspaper has become an integral part of our lives. As an
educator and leaner it is not just the source of getting information but is
also a medium of creating, analyzing, learning and developing various skills in
language. The importance of newspaper in classroom has greater significance as
now-a days engaging students has become quite a challenging task for educators.
The objective behind Newspaper in Education encourages autonomous learning
which goes well with primary objective of Presidium , which is to make learners
independent.
In Presidium Indirapuram, the middle school (VI-VIII) has
integrated English language learning with NIE. This not only has enhanced the
quality of teaching-learning but it has also helped in breaking the monotony of
learning in a structured way.
The first step towards this direction is using articles as Comprehension Passages. It not only
saves the labour and paper but also connects the new generation of language
learners to the world of print media. Students paste the articles and answer
the questions given by the teacher. It also helps during substitution periods
as it makes the substitution periods more productive.
Every day, CTP is
being exclusively devoted to newspaper
reading. It makes the maximum use of zero period and develops the habit of
reading newspaper daily.
Teaching Grammar and
vocabulary prove to be quite challenging at times as it requires
understanding and application in day to day life. In this regard, newspaper
plays a crucial role as the Junk-yard section caters to many topics related to
Grammar in an interesting manner. Students enjoy doing the Vocabulary Builder, Crosswords and Word watch section. After
solving these sections , once in a week they paste their favourite section in
their notebooks that gives them a sense of
relation with that particular section. Likewise, while doing Pronouns
students were asked to mark Personal and Possessive pronouns in the newspaper
and share with each other.
Similarly, NIE has helped a great deal in factual writing skills like report
writing , article writing and data interpretation as students get to know
how to deal with these topics in the most authentic way. Often, we try to
derive the formats of these topics using NIE. Similarly, Dialogue Writing and Picture
Description was made interesting by
using Cartoon Strips from the
newspaper. It not only made the topic more interesting for students but also
challenged their creativity.
Teacher Credit: Ms.Disha Pandey
