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Most subscribers to the Rappahannock News don’t get 17 copies each week, but most subscribers don’t use their papers in as many different ways as Bobbie Brochu does at the elementary school reading lab.
The county weekly as well as the daily issue of the Star Exponent incite 6th and 7th grade students to debates on all manner of events ranging from the extinction of the dinosaur to the defeat of the Redskins. The pupils avidly follow Rappahannock sports, supervisors races and controversial issues.
In fact, the children are encouraged to take their arguments home. Teacher Brochu says she occasionally assigns her pupils to start family dinner table discussions based on editorials they’ve read in class.
Brochu says a variety of skills can be taught from a newspaper the children learn how to shop for a house or a job by studying the classified ads; they learn how to be smart consumers by reading about the sales in local stores; they practice identifying parts of speech by cutting out headlines or analyzing story structure; they even make art projects
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