Our local newspaper no longer carries stock quotes…that is why we use USA TODAY. I have my students create a stock portfolio and then track their investments over a 10 week period. Afterwards, they graph their investments and write letters to the investor relations department of each of their companies, requesting annual and quarterly reports [...]

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I am using USA TODAY with 12th grade classes: I team teach AP language and AP government for students who have never taken an AP course. Students are keeping scrap books of important news stories not only to improve their understanding of government actions, but also to serve as a piece of history for themselves. [...]

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I was previously asked to put into writing how I used USA Today in my classroom and whether it worked well. I used it as a textbook supplement for all my RDG courses last semester. Students were asked to pick up a copy to bring to class, where they read self-selected articles independently for the [...]

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I had my students compile a 2008 election campaign portfolio. It was made up of 15 pages that they had to research and produce — including an introduction stating why 2008 was such a historical election; a summary of the primaries and the national nominating conventions; a brief biographical sketch on the president and vice [...]

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I primarily use the USA TODAY papers to reinforce the critical skill for engineers (and many other careers) of reading articles and then summarizing the main ideas. In Florida, this is a skill which is tested on our State Reading and Writing tests, but I tell my students it is a skill needed throughout life. [...]

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Ms. Christina Curran McDonalds Clarks Summit, PA Dear Ms. Curran: On behalf of the students at Carbondale Area Junior/Senior High School, we would like to sincerely thank you for sponsoring our daily delivery of 30 USA Today newspapers. You sponsorship has allowed my classes to incorporate the following programs into our Social Studies curriculum: Monday [...]

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This past summer I used the USA TODAY Summer Program for my 11th and 12th grade students who still have not passed the FCAT.  These students are really hard to reach and have negative attitudes about reading in general.  All I can say is WOW!  I have not seen this level of student so engaged [...]

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I must say that I am so excited about this curriculum…I love the way that the reading  strategies are built into the lesson by using background knowledge, predicting, graphic organizers and working with partners. . . the students thoroughly enjoyed the lesson plans and wanted to do more.  The lesson plans were well organized, had [...]

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First of all, I have used USA TODAY in the classroom with success with an exercise I made up called "phrasing." Small groups of ninth-grade students sit down with the newspaper, and we decide on an article to read. The students take turns reading a paragraph, and I then ask the reader to pick one [...]

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When my students write about their learning environment and the 10- minute reading period given at the beginning of each class school-wide, all communication barriers, learning disabilities, and behavioral problems, which ordinarily separate students, are removed. Students are transformed and commonalities become apparent. Young Adults are encouraged to express their opinions on articles selected daily [...]

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