Parade Classroom

As a PARADE magazine carrier, the Omaha World-Herald is pleased to offer you PARADE Classroom, a program of FREE educational materials that provides current, real-world activities and assignments to use with our newspaper and your curriculum.

Weekly Teacher's Guides
Get your students involved! Targeting middle school and high school students, the PARADE Classroom Teacher's Guides focus on current events, major news stories and newspaper activities. The materials offer lesson plans, teaching tips and reproducible skill sheets that encourage students to get involved with our local newspaper and the world around them.
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Teen Newsbreak
Exciting news! PARADE's FREE in-paper feature, teen newsbreak is now available. Connect students and the world by making current events relevant through debates, news quizzes and "hot news tips," written in their language. Each Thursday, we post a variety of sizes of teen newsbreak for in-paper use the following week.

(Please note that the quick news quizzes are time-sensitive.)

Teachers can find lesson plans corresponding to the week's teen newsbreak topic in our teacher's guide archive.
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Current Events Quizzes
Challenge your students each week! PARADE Classroom's weekly current events quizzes cover a broad range of major stories making headlines in newspapers across the country, from the international desk to the entertainment and sports pages. The quizzes can be distributed to classrooms or used as in-paper features each week.
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Anytime Activities
Make it fun! Encourage students to interact with our newspaper through PARADE Classroom Anytime Activities, whch offer hands-on experience in identifying newspaper elements, predicting stories, identifying issues, creative writing, and explaining the news.
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