Using Purpose-driven Nonfiction Writing to Build Health Awareness in Elementary and Middle Schools
Abstract
Since 2003, Healthy NewsWorks has helped elementary and middle school students develop research, interviewing, writing, and critical-thinking skills that they use as reporters on school-based health newspapers. These student publications, which also include an annual book about health leaders in the Philadelphia area, provide health information and literacy enrichment for the entire school community. Our young reporters not only gain academic skills and confidence, but they become health messengers, educators, and role models. As one third grade reporter put it, "I love that I can teach people, big and small, about how to be healthy."
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