The First News Reading Package
THE FIRST NEWS READING PACKAGE: First News and the weekly differentiated reading activities
First News, the UK’s national newspaper for 7 to 14 year olds, is the perfect tool to spark early engagement in current affairs with your pupils and get them excited about reading different texts. Produced in traditional, full colour, newspaper format, First News makes the news and issues of the day accessible, and broadens horizons beyond the classroom.
News stories from each week’s newspaper are made even more accessible to primary and secondary school pupils when used alongside First News’ weekly downloadable reading activities. These teaching resources are created by the First News Education Team to help KS1, KS2 and KS3 teachers engage pupils and support their reading development throughout the year with non-fiction texts.
Each week, three sets of reading activities are created for Years 1 to 3 (Level 1A-2A), Years 4 to 6 (Level 3-5) and Years 7 to 9 (Level 4-7). Each set includes comprehension questions that focus in on specific news stories, quizzes that encourage pupils to read the newspaper from cover to cover, and puzzles to build vocabulary and understanding of a news story. There is also a weekly debate on an issue in the newspaper with additional information and points of view – an ideal activity for stretching students and exploring arguement texts with engaging, topical issues. Find out more about these weekly activities by clicking on the link below to download our ‘What’s in the First News Reading Package?’ poster. Click here to sample the newspaper and all of the weekly reading sets.
By subscribing to the First News Reading Package, you’ll get copies of the latest issue of the newspaper delivered straight to your school every Friday morning during term time*, and online access to that week’s fresh set of accompanying teaching activities. Click here to find out more about subscriptions, prices and to subscribe.
(*This is a 40 week subscription. Subscriptions can start at any point in the school year.)