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Posted by talkdoc on 4/5/2008, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Re: ordering News 2 you"
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I've been using News-2-You for about three years now. I initially purchased it because its hard to find age appropriate materials for my high school students that are at their reading and/or developmental levels. Current events are appropriate for anyone. I use it in a co-teach situation with learning support classrooms, and this year take it into a regular education classroom with the lowest reg ed reading group. I don't have time to make the recipes, but the teachers in the life-skills classrooms often use them. I'm not big on worksheets, but provide a few that the teachers use when I'm not in the classroom.
One teacher usually has the students use the "story page" to write their own story using vocab words from the paper. A few weeks ago the paper topic was "Horton Hears a Who" - about the newly released movie. Her students wrote a letter to the principal in hopes of scoring a field trip to see the film. While that really couldn't happen, we are sponsoring a grade-level "night at the movies" with the local theater, and our students and their families are getting a reduced ticket price with popcorn and a drink. We'll have our own theater for seeing this movie.
I really like News-2-You, and I think that I can cover many, many IEP goals using this resource. My problem area is in measuring progress with literature-based therapy. That's when I pull out a game, because it gives me something to count. I don't think "game" therapy is nearly as effective, as I think the skills acquired using a literature-based model are more likely to be carried over to the curriculum, but a game does give me numbers. Does anyone have recommendations for me in the area of data collection?
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