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"TOP TEN" reasons for using the newspaper in the classroom
(Okay, so it's twelve. We couldn't limit it to ten!)

1. It's an adult medium. No big seventh grader who can't read likes to be seen carrying around "Six Ducks in a Pond" but he's proud to be seen reading the newspaper.

2. It deals in reality, in what is happening here and now. Motivation for reading and for discussions are built-in.

3. It bridges the gap between the classroom and the "real" world outside.

4. It contains history as it happens, reported as completely and as objectively as is humanly possible.

5. It's the ideal text for individualized instruction because it contains something for every student -the comics for the slower reader, the editorials for the brighter youngster; math problems ranging from number recognition to understanding stock market reports.

6. It contains practical vocabulary, the words students will use over and over again throughout their lives.

7. It can be marked, cut, pasted, colored - important to young children who learn by doing and seeing.

8. It contains in its news stories the best modes for clear, concise, simple writing.

9. It is the perfect model for teaching students to write for a purpose and for a particular audience.

10. It is the only up-to-date social studies text there is.

11. It is the only text the majority of students will continue to read throughout their lives.

12. It is an influential and integral part of our free society. Its freedom is guaranteed under the Constitution. This freedom is "less the right of the newspaper to print than it is the right of the citizen to read."