Free access to journal articles mentioned below are provided for 21 days. The following links from NCTE and ReadWriteThink.org provide resources on working with journalism students and other students as they write with an authentic audience in mind. They are sponsored by the Journalism Education Association.
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The ReadWriteThink.org Printing Press is a great way to support students in writing for authentic purposes. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and fliers announcing class events.
As teens spend more time online, we may ask how our language arts curricula can help them become savvy technology users. Two teachers describe their experience in "Finding Our Way: Eighth Graders Explore Social Networking Sites."
"Jumping into Journalism: Help with School Publications" provides suggestions, strategies, and tips for teachers who take on a supplemental role on a school publication.
"Using Journalism Writing to Improve College Composition" details a first-year college composition course that blends journalism instruction with first-year composition and describes how students learn about news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and then complete a profile writing project.
Mike Rose encourages teachers to think and write like journalists about what they see and do in their classrooms. He thinks teachers' voices need to be a part of the public discussion of education as he explains in "Observing Classrooms: What Journalists and Teachers Might Have in Common."
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