Week of October 1, 2007

Here is this week's issue of NewsCurrents Extra! -- providing you with exciting new content each week to help your students become informed and involved newspaper readers.

CONTENTS   Can your students guess the newsmaker? The "Who am I?" section features a different news person each week.   How will the housing slump affect the economy? Home foreclosures soared in August. What does this mean? Encourage your students to use the newspaper. Fun and challenging activities for you to use with your students -- written on three different grade levels.   Go in-depth Use these links to learn more about the stories in this week's NewsCurrents Extra! Test your students' news knowledge We ask 10 multiple-choice questions about stories that are in the newspaper this week. Top of Page

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