Web Dropin - Current Events
The Internet is a great resource for finding the latest news from a wide variety of sources. Students your age have current events right at your fingertips. In order to fully take advantage of the news on the Web, you need to be able to read and comprehend important information, and to summarize it.
When you read current events, you are reading for information. For specific reading strategies to use for this type of reading, see the resources link below.
Activity and Assignment
1. Read an important news story of
the day using the Scholastic News Zone website at the bottom of this webpage.
You may be assigned a specific story, or perhaps you will select one yourself.
2. You will complete a Current
Events Organizer following the reading. You may re-read the story to
look for specific information to complete the organizer. As you read, look
for information that will answer the questions:
One copy of the Current
Events Organizer
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Scholastic
News Zone.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/newszone/news/index.asp
Reading Strategies: visit this page created by Prince George's County Public Schools. (http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~elc/readingacross3.html)