For September, we start the school year by featuring the program
Morning Edition, on air each weekday between 4:00 and 9:00 AM.
Morning Edition's Web site provides text and accompanying audio segments on the top issues of each day as well as archived regional stories dating back to 1997. This month, Sound Learning supplies lesson templates to help you quickly integrate audio and text news stories into your classroom teaching. Use the templates to establish a current events routine in your classroom or add real-world issues to your language arts instruction. All lesson templates correlate to the Minnesota Graduation Standards.
If you listen to the program on your way to work, you could have a quality lesson ready to go by the time the first period bell rings.
Click on these links to find instructional ideas for the material on the Morning Edition site. |
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Use national and regional news stories as a springboard for your current events instruction. |
Template for a 50-minute lesson on discussing and summarizing the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of any news story. |
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Template that facilitates a 20–30 minute student-led discussion of any news story. |
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Use regional news stories to add fresh content to your reading comprehension instruction. |
Template for a 50-minute cause-and-effect lesson using any news story. |
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Use Morning Edition's archives with your students to practice research skills and develop their writing. |
Template for a 3–5 period mini-unit using Morning Edition for teaching note taking and editorial writing. |
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