Leavenworth Times Donates Newspaper for Sixth-Grade ELA Activities
Earlier this year, the Leavenworth Times offered to send newspapers to ELA classes, and 6th-grade teachers Kathy Baughman and Rachel Szmed jumped at the chance. When the newspapers arrived, their classes explored different aspects of the newspaper with a scavenger hunt, used the comic for a sequencing and predicting activity, and practiced writing short articles focused on the “5Ws and how” by using only a photograph as inspiration. For many students, this was the first time they had even held a newspaper.