Teachers' Home Page

Welcome Teachers! We are glad that you are utilizing News Sleuths to help teach your students to improve their critical reading and thinking skills while learning about recent issues regarding current events. We have designed the lessons and activities on this site with you in mind and we hope that you will find that they are easy to integrate into your language arts and social studies curriculum.

Please read How to Use this Site for a more in depth explanation of the content available to you and your students on News Sleuths. To learn how other teachers integrate the content into their curriculum, visit the discussion board to ask questions and communicate with teachers around the globe who utilize this site.

For additional lesson plans designed to help students think critically about what they read in the news, skim the lesson plans or visit some of the resources and links, which highlight some other useful websites that discuss current events issues targeted to a younger audience.