How NiE supports the NZ Curriculum

By using NiE mini newspapers in your classroom you will:
• Encourage critical literacy and social inquiry.
• Encourage reading comprehension and information skills, such as skimming and scanning, brainstorming and questioning.
• Help your students ask and understand rich questions.
• Save yourself valuable time by covering the key competencies and essential skills through your NiE programme.
 
Each mini newspaper includes:
• Close reading
• Problem solving activities
• Critical thinking activities
• Engaging with visuals
• Processing information activities
 
They model:
• Report writing
• Caption writing
• Persuasive writing
• Transactional writing
 
Using our NiE programme in a variety of ways in your literacy programme ensures English objectives along with the key competencies are covered. For example:
• Thinking – Many of the NiE text-based activities include thinking skills which are a major focus in schools today – also graphic organisers, thinker’s keys and questioning levels, such as Bloom’s Taxonomy questions.
• Using language, symbols and texts – Infographics, photographs, cartoons, maps, symbols and keys all feature in our mini newspapers regularly.
• Managing self – Through completion of text-based tasks and being an integral part of a group/class.
• Relating to others – Working with others in a group session or with a buddy on text-based tasks.
• Participating and contributing – Daily guided reading and writing where students can engage with text that is of high interest.