Journalism as a source of teaching

Abstract

A teacher of the public schwl network talks about her teaching experiente developing a project that uses the elaboration of a newspaper as a source of learning how to write spontaneous texts with logical sequences. The children learn how to read the newspaper, to understand its sections and how they are distributed, what an editorial note is, and even the reader's opinion. They discussed themes among each other, created new articles, selected their preferred subjects, and used collage. Aside from learning spontaneous writing, the teacher also worked on notions of newspaper layout and graphic elaboraiion with the children while the Class Newspaper was being put together. The final product was then shown to the other classrooms in the school so they could also see the work that had been done.