News for Kidz™ is specifically designed to involve children aged 5 to 15 yrs., in the activity of making news, reading news, and writing news.HOME SITE MAP ©Meenakshi Suri 2003It is possibly one of the only sites on the internet designed specifically for news about kidz. The site welcomes contributions from children, about the events in their daily lives: both usual and unusual.
The purpose of this site is two-fold:
- Purpose
- Benefits to Children
- Benefits to Teachers and Parents
- Two components
- Commitment
- Webmaster/Editor
- Why News for/about Kidz?
- UNICEF’s The State of the World Children 2003
- To help today's children become aware of the world around them; specifically by reading and sharing news about other children in their neighborhood and around the world. In other words, news about children.
- To encourage children to discern aspects of their own lives and the lives of their friends and classmates, which are worth sharing, to promote further awareness in other children. In other words, news by children.
There are two components to News for Kidz™:
1st. A website, called News for Kidz ™ which is updated monthly with original articles, stories, letters, replies to quizzes, creative writing or artwork sent in by children.
To help them to write, a weekly QuickQuestion™ is sent out through email each week. See past QuickQuestions™ here https://www.angelfire.com/realm2/newsforkids/question.html
http://www.newsforkidz.com/2nd. A weekly email newsletter NewsBites for Kidz ™, e-mailed out to those who sign in. This has news from worldwide news sources, handpicked for relevance to children in this age group. A digest of children's news from the media, where Kidz are the focus of the news. The news is from different sources, all acknowledged, and accessible over the internet so it’s easy to get further details, and cover different countries of the world. The newsletter is completely free of charge; it can be subscribed through subscribe@newsforkidz.com. The focus is on everyday or heroic acts; tragedies may be mentioned, but in a way that doesn't overly disturb children.
From the UNICEF press kit http://www.unicef.org/sowc03/presskit/summary.html