NewsCurrents Extra
Week of February 18, 2008
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.
  The Budget Battle
President Bush unveiled his 8th and final budget, and Congress is already getting set to battle him on it. Find out more about the first federal budget to top $3 trillion.
Student Activities 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.

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