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Summer Plus is sneaky education. It draws in young readers with topics they like, and teaches them while they read for fun. It’s light, it’s bright, and for nine years it has been giving families and students a way to keep reading skills sharp during vacation months.
It also gives NIE managers a way to keep their programs active all year round, and supplies summer schools with fresh material written live each week.
Like Newspaper PLUS during the school year, Summer Plus offers a mix of conversation questions and newspaper activities. Each are designed to get kids thinking and talking and learning more through the newspaper.
On any week, Summer Plus may take a look at dinosaurs, discuss new movies, or reveal the latest in roller coasters or space.
Summer Plus proves that youth features can be fun, even if they’re sneaky teachers!
Sample Newspaper Activity
The Live 8 concerts seek to demonstrate public concern about problems of poverty, hunger and disease in Africa. Past benefit concerts like Live Aid in 1985 have raised money that was used to solve problems. With family or friends, discuss the two approaches. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What are the benefits of having top musical performers lend their time and talent to causes? Follow up by searching the ads, listings and stories in the newspaper for concerts you might like to attend this summer. Write a paragraph describing how you think hearing a group�s music live would be different than listening to it on CD.
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