I have used USA Today in the classroom whenever it becomes available. I teach 12th grade Economics at the Standard level and it really brings the class to life when I ask the students to consider USA Today as our second textbook! The students understand the relevancy and sometimes the urgency of economics in their [...]

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The students at East Providence High School have greatly benefited from  USA TODAY newspapers being used in the classrooms. East Providence High School has a news media course and USA TODAY was the foundation of that course. One hundred high school seniors are enrolled in the course, and everyday they are required to read the [...]

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OBJECTIVE: Use your dramatic skills and analytical skills in working with dramatic text to write a mini screenplay based on a true life event. ACTIVITY:   Select one story from today’s paper and develop it into a 3-minute or less scene.  Choose your story carefully, remembering the elements you must take into consideration — including those [...]

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We use FoolProof and the USA TODAY financial literacy articles as supplements in our curriculum for all our business and economics classes. The combination of the videos in FoolProof and the articles in USA TODAY are a huge hit with our students.   Micheal Sheffer, Corning East High School, Corning NY  

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Kids don’t listen to the news or read newspapers in middle school very often. It’s all video games, so, I asked them to create a game using USA TODAY articles. They have to develop a game board and use questions and answers for the articles they choose. Sort of a USA TODAY Trivial Pursuit. I [...]

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Have students (in groups of 2-4) select an article and go on a scavenger hunt for “interesting” vocabulary words. Ask them to examine the article for author’s purpose and tone. Reexamine the words in context and note the denotative/connotative meaning of the words and how the use of those words reveal the author’s tone. Examine [...]

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I utilized the financial literacy lessons as a research supplement to both economics and various math classes. The students enjoyed getting away from the "books" and participating in small groups to complete these lessons. Material was current information relating to what is happening in the world today and drew the students in more than the [...]

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I team teach with a special educator, and we use the USA TODAY frequently to increase reading comprehension and to boost independent reading.  Recently, we used the paper as a means of teaching main and supporting ideas to students in our developmental English class.  We use the ELMO (overhead projector) and have students guess what [...]

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Right now, we are creating newscasts.  Students are practicing their summarization skills to put together a newscast that will be televised in our class. If the newscasts really pan out, they will be broadcast to people in our school who are interested in watching them. The students build the sets, gather current information from USA [...]

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I teach secondary business education. I have found that USA TODAY’s education portal has not only articles/case studies that directly affect and reflect my subject area, but also curriculum in other core subjects I can apply in my lesson plans.For example, when we began a lesson regarding saving and budgeting, I directed my students’ attention to the article/activity "Scoring Points [...]

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