Activities

Train the Brain

• Use the East Valley Tribune to explore and discuss some of today’s topics.

• News Summaries - Summarize today's top stories, use to build vocabulary and geography knowledge.

• Who, What Where When and How - Quiz based on articles and photographs in today's East Valley Tribune.

• On This Day - events and people associated with this day in history.

• Word of the Day - learn a new word that was used in a recent East Valley Tribune article.

• News Snapshot - a daily news activity based on a newsworthy, provocative photo from The East Valley Tribune.

• Ask a Reporter - ask a featured East Valley Tribune reporter a question about journalism or his or her "beat," and read the response online.

• According to the index, what pages are the following found on: classified ads, obituaries, crossword puzzle, weather, and editorial page.

• Find the following information: If you wanted to start a subscription to the newspaper, what telephone number would you call and what would a year's subscription cost? Who is the editor of the newspaper? What wire services can you find listed in the newspaper?

• Clip and label an example of each of the following: index, byline, cutline, dateline and headline.

• Find a newspaper article that is about each of the following: a meeting of a government agency, a press conference, a disaster or unexpected happening, the schools.

• Find five stories from different cities in your state. Then find five stories from different states and five stories from different countries.

• Project yourself into society in which there are no newspapers. Make a list of all the functions provided by the newspapers, including such things as providing news, serving as an advertising medium, social announcements, upcoming events, critical reviews, etc. How would each of these functions be met in the newspaper less society?