Y5-6Reading+Programmes

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 * __ Reading programmes __**

 __**Newspapers in Education have some great reading activities**__ Check out the Kidzone section http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/26/kidzone/home

Use your local newspaper to take part in a scavenger hunt at http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/76/teacherzone/scavenger-hunt

or check out the "Breaking News" section at http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/89/teacherzone/breaking-news

Read newspaper articles online at http://www.scoop.co.nz/ or http://www.stuff.co.nz/

Now that you know something about newspapers and their layout, have a go at creating your own newspaper using your computer and upload your newspaper as a file to your class display page on the navigation bar. You'll find lots of help for this in the NIE Kidzone - there's a [|video of building your news story] and another page called [|News Page Builder.]
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Programmes that you could use for this include MS Word, MS Publisher, Mac Pages or if you have none of these download Open Office at

[|//OpenOffice//.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite]
A multiplatform and multilingual //office// suite and an //open//-source project. Compatible with all other major //office// suites, free to download, use, **...** [|Download] - [|Product] - [|Feature Overview] - [|I want to learn more about ...] www.**openoffice**.org/


 * //__or__//** do a Google search for "free publishing software" and find something to download for your PC or Mac. This graphic shows the first few on the list but there are many (10,199,996) others so do your own search at http://www.google.co.nz/

If you need any help you can email me. I'm Jill Hammonds. My job is mostly to work with teachers about working this way, but I love working with kids too. If I get swamped with requests I may take a day or two to get back to you but don't let that put you off.