Making the most of news magazines

Streaming video - 2014

Franki Sibberson's fourth and fifth grade students use binders to organize their weekly news magazines in a compilation for use throughout the year. In this classroom vignette, the students use these magazines collected and organized over many weeks as part of their social studies curriculum considering the legal system. After the classroom sequence, Franki and Karen Szymusiak, an elementary principal, discuss the many natural curriculum extensions that come from having an assortment of current short text at every student's fingertips for skimming, sorting, and classifying throughout the year. About the author: Franki Sibberson has been teaching elementary children in the Dublin City Schools in Dublin, Ohio, since 1987. She has ta...ught kindergarten through fifth grade, and her teaching has included reading intervention. Karen Szymusiak is currently the principal of Glacier Ridge Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio. She has spent over 30 years in education as a teacher, coordinator of curriculum, and building administrator. She has presented at national conferences and workshops on reading in the intermediate grades and leadership for literacy. more