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The Bowie News Newspapers in Education (NIE) program is starting back up for the 2014-2015 year in your child’s school. This program will help improve your child’s reading and comprehension skills, and teach them educational concepts, such as math and cost comparison skills, geography and meterology, and history and current events through the use of local and regional news, editorials, features, and even advertising.

Your child’s teacher has the opportunity to submit photos and stories highlighting students’ work in class to run on a special Bowie News NIE page. This page ensures there is something that will be geared toward your child in the newspaper.

To help your child become more familiar with reading a newspaper, here are some activities you can do at home no matter what grade level they are at:

1. Play 20 questions as you look at a page together: “I’m looking at a word that starts with ‘B’ and
is in the first column.” Talk about what the word means after the child finds it.
2. Have your child choose an object pictured in the newspaper and describe it to you. See if you can
correctly identify it based on your child’s description.
3. Encourage your child to search through the “Employment” section of the classified ads. Let the
child pick a job that sounds appealing and talk about the education needed to get that job.
4. Looking through the newspaper, ask your child to find examples of items that fit a category.
For example:
a. Foods I like
b. Clothes I like to wear
c. Toys I like to play with
d. Animals I like

If you have any questions please contact me at The Bowie News office at 200 Walnut, Bowie, call 940-872-2247 or email [email protected].

Sincerely,

Kayla Jean Woods
NIE Coordinator

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