News and media literacy skills can be embedded into the teaching of a range of subjects. Designed for students aged 11-16, these downloadable guides share ideas for teachers to help develop these skills in students across Humanities, English and Media Studies.
We know students are constantly exposed to news and other messages from the media. It's crucial for them to learn how to engage with and interpret the messages they see. This downloadable resource is full of ideas for teaching students how the media works and how to write and interpret news, and can be used across the secondary curriculum.
Our annotated Guardian and Observer front pages are regularly updated to reflect current news events and help bring news vocabulary to life.
We also have a resource for GCSE Media Studies that examines 12 front pages from The Observer's history.
To help you support your students with writing news articles or creating newspapers, we have a concise sheet of guidance for writing news stories, a poster on the structure of a news story and the 5Ws of journalism and a worksheet where students can choose what pictures should accompany different headlines.
Both features and opinion articles differ in style and structure from a news story. To help you support students with writing features and opinion articles, we have a guidance sheet explaining what a feature and an opinion piece is, as well as tips for writing both. There are also two worksheets which will help students to identify the structural elements of a feature and opinion article.
Do your students struggle to remember the correct terminology when talking about news? These single-page factfiles are great for supporting students with news and newspaper vocabulary.
Are your students interested in learning more about the history of news? Designed for students aged 11-14, this lesson plan provides an opportunity to introduce students to the job of an archivist, primary sources, and journalistic skills. With up to an hour of interactive lesson material including videos that bring to life The Guardian News & Media Archive's rich collection, as well as suggestions for follow up learning tasks.
![Printing the Manchester Guardian, nd [c1940s-c1950s]. Machine room - fitting a plate on to the rotary presses ready for printing. Stamped Manchester Guardian copyright. Archive ref: GUA-6-9-1-4-G box 3. Photograph: The Manchester Guardian](/assets/img/containers/images/programmes/gnmarchive-manchester-guardian-machine-room-c1940s.jpg/629d183ab605d8881aca8df3e79110de.jpg)