Research
Links
for Coyote
School News
Interactive
Arizona Map
Cities, national parks, state parks, roads, freeways,
lakes & rivers, Native American Nations
Arizona
Maps
Printable Highway Map, County Maps, Electronic Atlas,
Topographical
Study
Newspapers!
A complete lesson plan to get started using newspapers
in your classroom!
The
Class Newspaper
Gather your materials and collect your ideas! You're
going to write a class newspaper!
Parts
of a Class Newspaper
Here's a great list of different sections you may choose
to write!
A
Middle School Newspaper Writing Project
Organization
of a Class Newspaper and Suggestions for Topics for Your Articles
Creating
a Class Newspaper
You'll
get worksheet organizers online here!
Using
a Class Newspaper to Bring History to Life
The Smithsonian
uses the Wright Brothers to model how writing newspapers can bring
history alive to kids!
Professional
Cartoonists
Create
Your Own Newspaper
Depression
Era Photos in the 1930s to Compare with Coyote School Life
Literary
Connections:
The
School Story by Andrew Clements
The
Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
Dear
Whiskers by Whitehead Nagda Ann
Flying
Solo by Ralph Fletcher
Frindle
by Andrew Clement
Hey,
New Kid! by
Betsy Duffey
Esperanza
Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Harvesting
Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
In
My Family / En Mi Familia by
Carmen Lomas Garza
The
Upside Down Boy by Juan Felipe Hererra
Tomas
and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Juan
Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie by Joe Hayes
Kids
Wings 5-Star Rating:
(Symbolizing high moral character in
children's literature)
The Kids' Wings
unit for Coyote
School News includes:
map activities
predict/confirm chapter questions,
crossword puzzle
multiple choice comprehension
using story clues to sequence the bus map route
create your own class newspaper outline,
Answer Pages
"...my
great-grandfather was an americano, not because he crossed the line,
but because the line crossed him."
Ramon Ernesto Ramirez, Coyote
School News
The instinct for
language is imprinted in the genes, a God-given, gene-driven capacity
that emerges with life itself. Literacy, like love, knows no limits.
It is a lifelong journey.
Ernest L. Boyer, "Literacy and Learning,"The First R, Every
Child's Right to Read"
A special thanks to Christopher
Ian Hill for the background music: The Great American West!