* Bertelsen, M.J. (1996). Enhancing writing skills in English and Spanish: A bilingual newsletter for Hispanic high school students. (M.A. Project, University of Oregon) ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 402 611.
This article is a project paper which discusses the use of journalism techniques (including the taking photographs) as a means of enhancing the writing skills of bilingual students. Specifically, it is noted that teaching students journalism techniques (through having them produce a bilingual newsletter) is an effective way to improve the writing abilities of Hispanic high school students in English and Spanish. Additionally, the creation of a bilingual newsletter was said to increase the students' awareness of as well as their participation in community issues.
This project paper analyzes why teaching journalism is valuable to students and outlines the kinds of skills that students can gain from these instructional methods. Further, the paper presents a 10-day long curriculum which offers teachers lessons on how to implement a newsletter in their own classrooms.
The article presents several appendixes containing such resources as a list of rules for conducting interviews, an interview evaluation sheet, a newsletter style guide, a good deal of advice on how to take photographs, a general advertising contract, advertising rules, practice sheets for advertising, two sample texts for use with "Pagemaker"(TM) software, and a sample newsletter.
* Brown, M. (1984). Shelter: A primary solution. School Arts, 83(8), 24-26.
The central claim of this article is that taking photographs can be a means of not only building students' literacy skills and teaching them a variety of different subject areas, but also, it can be a means of helping them adjust to life changes. Examples of life changes as they relate to school can consist of such experiences as moving from one school to another or adjusting to the...