Just thought I would add this as I have been on about teaching newspapers in class. Newseum is a fantastic site giving access to over 500 international newspaper front pages. Click on “Today’s Front Pages” and you can view them all either as a list or as a map which I have done with my class.

Great for exploring the features of journalistic style and newspaper language features. As a class we even looked at a Russian front page and identified the same language features (Headline, strapline, caption etc) as an English version. This helped (I think…) the kids to understand the universality of the features of a newspaper.

The site though also has some excellent resources for social studies and I will be using the D-Day news feature (pictured above is the front page of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph) to help provide a source of historical information when we study WW2 in our history. The front pages can be zoomed into in the flash feature and explored really easily.

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