Students recognize philanthropy and collect samples from the newspaper or other literary sources. In this newspaper writing lesson, students observe acts of kindness and write about them in a newsletter.

In this language arts worksheet, students are provided a template for which to write a newspaper article. Students complete their own article and provide a picture/illustration to accompany what they have written.

In this let's write a newspaper story activity, students choose a story, explain why they chose this story, then write what they will do to make this a successful newspaper story.

"Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan" is a one page, nonfiction passage about Daniel Burnham, an architect and city planner for Chicago. He planned the layout of the city including Navy Pier, railroads, streets, and public buildings. It is...