100 Ways to Use the Newspaper
-Language Arts-

11. Cut out all the letters in the alphabet and paste them onto a piece of paper. Find words and pictures of things that start with that letter. Paste these on the correct sheet of paper.

12. Choose five different newspaper headlines and rewrite each into a complete sentence.

13. Look through the newspaper and cut out words that describe you. Paste them on a silhouette of yourself. Compare with a classmate.

14. Keep a notebook of new and unfamiliar words that you find in your newspaper. Write the definition for each word.

15. Make three columns on a piece of construction paper and label them as prefixes, suffixes and root words. Cut words from the newspaper; cut them apart and paste them in their correct columns.

16. Find a news article written in the past tense and rewrite it in the present tense.

17. Select a story from the newspaper and then compare it to the style of a short story.

18. Using a straight news story, circle all the direct objects in blue, the indirect objects in red and the objects of prepositions in green.

19. In a news story, draw arrows from all pronouns to their antecedents.

20. Find two examples of each of the four kinds of sentences: interrogative, declarative, exclamatory and imperative.