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• 1. What is NIE?
  • NIE, is an international program begun in 1955 to advance the use of newspapers in schools.

• The main purpose of the program:-

• to improve reading, spelling and writing abilities.

• The N.I.E. program offers a win-win situation.

• Teachers enhance their curriculum with an innovative and successful teaching method.

• excited, motivated students learn valuable skills by using the newspaper.

2. Why NIE?

• Studies show that using newspapers in the classroom helps students increase their vocabulary, comprehension and critical thinking.

• Newspapers help students establish lifelong reading habits, develop math skills and even score higher on tests.

• Today's better informed students grow up to be tomorrow's better informed adults.

3. Who is involved?

• Teachers use the newspapers as textbooks and supplements in areas such as reading, writing, math, science, history, economics, language arts, special education, English as a second language and more. The newspaper can be incorporated into nearly any classroom subject and grade level from kindergarten to adult education. Newspapers are considered the most up-to-date, inexpensive textbook available to students. The skills gained from regular newspaper exposure make each student a better learner, a better problem-solver, and a better leader.

4. Reading Tips

• Read aloud.

• Allow for discussion before, during and after each read-aloud period.

• Dont "test" children on what youve read, but use the opportunity to get their opinions and to share your own.

• Read the sections that interest you both: the comics, movie reviews, the Food Section, classified ads.

• Ask questions:

• • What do you think happened next?

• • How do you think the person in the article felt?

• • How does this picture make you feel?

• • What would you have done?

5. Guidelines for the use of Newspaper in Education followed by our school

• Five minutes should be devoted for discussion of the headlines/ news items everyday in the class by the teachers.

• It can be used for honing the comprehension skills of the students and for enhancing their word power.

• Any interesting information can be put up on the display board. Maintain a scrap book on a topic for the month.

• If any NIE activity is done, the students should keep a record of the same in the respective notebook.

• Every Friday the newspaper to be returned to the library.

• Used newspaper can/ to be made into paper bags.

6. Conclusion

• Newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students' knowledge of current affairs. There is a danger of putting students off reading newspapers if articles are used in the same way as course books, with tedious comprehension activities. If used in a more inspiring way, newspapers can help students to develop not only reading skills but also writing, grammar, vocabulary and speaking skills

7. Benefits of Membership of Educational Library

• Library network provides you with access to contemporary ideas and expertise.

• Membership to the Library has provided benefit to individuals in the organisations as well as the organisation as a whole.

• It provide access to the latest ideas in your area of study, in your professional life, or in your career development.

8. Services

• Online library customer services

• Self development modules like communicating effectively. Access to discussionforum, polls, survey etc.

• Reference and Electronic Resources

• Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

• Inter library loan

• Online access terminals

• Photocopying

• Workshops for teachers and students

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