Making the Most of News Magazines
Author: Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak
Format: Viewing guide + 10-15 min DVD
ISBN: 1571104410
Publisher: Stenhouse 2006
Audience: Teacher resource
Price: $59.95
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Franki Sibberson's fourth and fifth grade students use binders to organise their weekly news magazines in a compilation for use throughout the year. In this classroom vignette, the students use these magazines collected and organised over many weeks as part of their social studies curriculum considering the legal system. After the classroom sequence, Franki and Karen Szymusiak, an elementary principal, discuss the many natural curriculum extensions that come from having an assortment of current short text at every student's fingertips for skimming, sorting, and classifying throughout the year.
