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New serial story explores legends & biodiversity to help newspapers celebrate literacy & encourage family reading
Chap001_color_lt.jpg WAN-IFRA is again providing a free twelve-part serialized story with art and related activities in Spanish and English to help newspapers encourage family reading and celebrate International Literacy Day (8 September). This year's story, The Legend of the Pony's Tears, was donated by Mary Maden, with illustrations by Vicki Wallace. The Paris-based Sardine Features is again donating articles by Patricia Valicenti and photos by Francis Apesteguy about the real cougar roar 003-lt-10cm 72dpi_1.jpg
natural world, this time focusing on the support for biodiversity offered by some of the animals mentioned in the story: cougars, eagles and wolves.
All materials are available HERE.

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Jury includes  guest from MIET-Ghana,             prize results coming in September

WYRP supported by logo-6cm 72 dpi_1.jpgSolomon Ofori of Media in Education  Trust  (MIET) - Ghana, who has also been a newspapers in education teacher trainer for WAN-IFRA in Nigeria and Liberia, accepts a computer from Aralynn McMane of WAN-IFRA as thanks for being a guest judge for the 2010 World Young Reader Prize awards. Results of the jury, which included past top prize winners from Australia, Brazil, Panama, Poland and South Africa, will be announced in September. The awards and donation were supported by Norske Skog as part of its partnership in WAN-IFRA's Newspapers in Education Development Project.
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World Football Reading Passport helped children understand the game & the world

Newspapers worldwide gave a World Football Reading Passport to children during this year's FIFA World Cup (TM), thanks to free materials offered by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN)
logoiasnOK_GOOD_5cm_72_dpi.jpgNewspapers representing more than 1.8 million circulation offered this educational editorial tool that used football to encourage FOOTBALL PASSPORT -booklet - FRONT COVERlt_1.jpgyoung people to learn about journalism, sports, geography, language and character. Readers could explore all of the newspaper through a booklet of exercises that can be used in schools or at home.

WAN-IFRA providing art and model layouts, plus text in English, Deutsch, Espaõl, Français, Italiano, Portugês and Russki. The format can be a separate booklet, an in-paper cut-out version or even separate pages for children to collect to make their own passport. Newspapers are encouraged to find local sponsors to make the passport as widely available as possible. WAN-IFRA will be providing similar materials for newspers in the coming months, so watch this space for details!
Brazil school to be honored for press
freedom edition of school newspaper
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and ANJ, the Brazilian brazil_school_winners_VL_H_PremioEscolaFultonMacedo0010_8_cm.jpgnewspaper association, will make a joint regional award to a Brazilian school in the first World School Newspaper Prize for Press Freedom for excellent use of WAN-IFRA materials for 3 May Press Freedom Day as both content and inspiration for student's own content in a specially-themed edition of the school newspaper.  The winning school was Escola Municipan Prefeito Dr. Fulton Vitel B. de Macedo in Ponta Grossa, state of Paraná. The school was nominated by the Newspapers in Education department of Jornal da Manhã. MORE
WAN-IFRA Teacher Ambassadors from Jordan address Arab Free Press Forum, lead class

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WAN-IFRA "Teacher Ambassadors" from Jordan shared Newspapers in Education (NIE) training strategies with colleagues from Lebanon, then explained NIE to the dozens of publishers, editors, journalists and press freedom advocates from 25 countries attending 4th Arab Free Press Conference in Beirut. Ghada Kakish (top photo) and Raja'a Al Khatieb of Jordan and Aida Tabboush, a third teacher from Lebanon, completed this first group of WAN-IFRA Teacher Ambassadors, oined by veteran WAN-IFRA trainer Gerard van der Weijden of Stepp in Belgium. MORE

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Download our free Reading & Learning with Newspapers guides for teachers & executives. English, Español
FOOTBALL PASSPORT NEWS
>> Former Bafana Bafana striker and captain Shaun Bartlett has joined The Mercury newspaper in Durban, South Africa, as its World Football Reading Passport champion. The initiative, which will run in The Mercury from Tuesday - builds on the popular Learn and Teach page in the newspaper's weekly Challenger supplement. It will be published every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the main section and will end on July 7. In South Africa, the Mercury has partnered with Mondi to ensure that the project reaches as many children as possible in the impoverished KwaZulu-Natal region. MORE
>> Primary School pupils are to read about the Fifa World Cup that starts on June 11 in South Africa through (Uganda's) Daily Monitor Newspapers in Education programme. The World Cup project dubbed, "The World Football Reading Passport" is an educational editorial tool that uses football to encourage young people to learn about journalism, sports, geography, language and character. MORE


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INTERNET IN THE FAMILY --    A GUIDE YOU CAN PUBLISH
>> As an insert or series, this material makes you a media literacy ally by helping parents and teachers in your area guide children when they go online. English, Français, Español Deutsch
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Download our free materials to teach about the importance and fragility of press freedom.
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  OUR AIM: The  World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) helps newspapers engage the young to create a literate, civic-minded new generation of readers all over the world. Based in Paris and Darmstadt, WAN-IFRA represents 18 000 newspaper and 15 000 online sites.

WHAT WE DO: Click on the covers below to find out about some of our activities.

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These e-publications are courtesy of
www.wobook.com
Some videos we like...

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Newspapers in cartoons
Click on the image of Garfield (above) to
take a look at some of the donations
from artists worldwide for use on
International Litearcy Day (2-minute video).


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NIE in Colombia
Click on the image of to learn how teachers
and students all over Colombia feel about
using newspapers in the classroom.
The six-minute film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Some gifts we like...
Here are some gift suggestions for newspaper people who care about
the young, about reading and about education. Click HERE to tell us about others.

gift01_t.jpgA blackboard
The Canadian branch of CARE will put a new blackboard in a school in Zambia or Malawi for your CAN$ 21 donation, which can be done in honor of a friend. Details HERE.


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100 Photos de la nature pour la liberté de la presse (RSF, 2009, Jean-François Julliard, paperback, under 10 Euros). The latest in photo books by Reporters Without Boarders (RSF) focuses on fabulous nature photos and a need to protect the environment. Details about this and previous RSF photo books at  www.rsf.org. Available online.

A storybook with a newspaper theme:

In French: Le loup est revenu (multiple publishers, 1996, Geoffroy de Pennart, paperback, under 10 Euros) by - early primary - "The Wolf Is Back" the headline reads, but all ends well. Available online.

In French and Spanish: Le/El Daily Star (multiple publishers, first edition in1984, Maurice Morris, Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche, primary through university,) In this comic book, the cowboy Lucky Luke meets up with an itinerant newspaper publisher who gets into all kinds of trouble as he crosses the West. Can be read for fun and for talking about real issues in journalism and press freedom. Available online (Spanish version hard to find).

In Spanish: El magico mundo de los periodicos (Peque Press, 2007, Maria Oset, hardback, primary level), A child tries to figure out what a newspaper is like. The luscious art will charm even non-Spanish speakers. Available via the author, Maria Oset at  maria.oset@mail.egn.es



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