SearchKid Scoop offers two Teacher Guides.
The Kid Scoop Teacher Guide is aligned with learning standards and is packed with ideas and activities for the home and classroom.
The Media Literacy Guide helps teachers go deeper in developing Media Literacy skills and to help students understand the important role of journalism and fair and accurate reporting in today’s world. The guide offers ideas to expand on the “Reporter’s Corner” column which appears on Kid Scoop periodically throughout the year.
Kid Scoop Teacher Guide
Kid Scoop provides teachers with a highly motivating standards-based teaching tool to give students a boost in their reading skills. Research shows that when children become good readers in their early years, they are more likely to remain better learners throughout their school years.
Teaching reading is simply lots of fun with Kid Scoop. And the Kid Scoop Teacher Guide shows you how to use the weekly activity newspaper page to the utmost.
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Kid Scoop helps teachers support Foundational, Vocabulary and Comprehension skills in a fun and interactive way! A dynamic weekly publication, Kid Scoop presents high interest informational text with colorful illustrations, charts, diagrams and activities that motivate and excite young learners. Thematic topics cover a wide range of interests and multiple content areas while extensions lead children to other sections of the newspaper for more expository reading—informational text resources such as newspapers. Students “learn to read” as they “read to learn” while practicing skills and strategies using an authentic resource.
Classroom Management
How to find time for newspapers and how to structure the use of the newspaper in a way that is organized, clean and stress-free.
A Sample Lesson Plan
A reciprocal reading lesson plan with a sequential process for introducing, teaching with and extending lessons with each page.
Family Involvement
The Kid Scoop Teacher Guide also provides teachers with home learning activities that get parents and kids talking and teaming up for learning fun!
And, that’s not all!
The Kid Scoop Teacher Guide also provides a Glossary of newspaper terms, activities to promote vocabulary development, reading comprehension and more!
Download Kid Scoop Teacher Guide CCSS
Download Kid Scoop Teacher Guide TEKS
Media Literacy Guide
If you are a regular reader of the weekly Kid Scoop page, you may have noticed a column that appears every few weeks called “Reporter’s Corner.” This regularly appearing column introduces students to basic journalism concepts, standards and practices. It serves as an excellent launch pad for discussions of media literacy as well.
The Media Literacy Guide is short and to the point—and offers exciting ways to make media literacy an ongoing topic of discussion in your classroom. It also provides excellent basic writing practice.
