The Need for the Revision of Curriculum using newspapers

The curriculum decides the content for each subject and it takes a major role in incorporating arich variety of approaches to teaching and learning process, which cater to the differing needs ofan individual student. The structure and presentation of the curriculum content facilitates theplanning of access to the curriculum. Presently, newspapers are very inexpensive and compelling"textbooks" for adult literacy development. Incorporating newspapers into the English languageclassroom offers the teacher authentic, practical, and easily accessible materials. Newspapers canrepresent useful tools in the language classroom, and it is so much more than a resource to be usedin the academic curriculum. In today’s media conscious society, even the elementary student cando an assortment of meaningful learning activities using the newspaper. The activities can be usedeffectively in a newspaper center in the classroom, or as a whole class assignment. Have fun andcelebrate the year using the newspaper