Resources for Teachers

Live Webinar: Teaching Informational Writing

Join us on Jan. 14 as we walk through our STEM Writing Contest and discuss ways to engage students in informational writing.

By The Learning Network

On-Demand Webinar: How to Teach Review Writing With The New York Times

In this webinar, NYT critics and Learning Network editors share and discuss mentor texts and strategies for teaching review writing.

By The Learning Network

80 Tips for Remote Learning From Seasoned Educators

Twenty-eight middle and high school teachers from The New York Times Teaching Project tell us how they’re navigating remote instruction this fall.

By The Learning Network

Teaching Resources for Middle School Using The New York Times

Activities and lessons that can be employed by English, social studies, math and science educators, using Times photos, illustrations, graphs, videos, podcasts and articles.

By Michael Gonchar and Natalie Proulx

7 Activities to Build Community and Positive Classroom Culture During Online Learning

Ideas for creating authentic connections, meaningful relationships and classroom camaraderie through the screen.

By The Learning Network

19 Ways to Teach the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

Activities to help students learn a more complete history of the women’s suffrage movement, make connections to current events and find ways to “finish the fight.”

By Natalie Proulx

Use These 18 Images to Inspire Your Own Short Story

We provide the visual ingredients to get you started. Your job is to create an original story from these characters, settings and conflicts.

By Nicole Daniels and Natalie Proulx

26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students

To help teachers make the most of these films, we also provide a grab-bag of teaching ideas, related readings and student activities.

By Michael Gonchar

Over 100 Lesson Plans Based on New York Times Articles

A selection of evergreen Lessons of the Day from the 2019-20 school year to help students better understand world events and draw connections to their own lives.

By The Learning Network

Writing Prompts, Lesson Plans, Graphs and Films: 150 Resources for Teaching About the Coronavirus Pandemic

This cross-curricular resource collection, including math, history, science and music, helps students process, deepen and challenge their understanding of the pandemic and its effects on our society.

By The Learning Network

Sentences That Matter, Mentor and Motivate

Two teachers show how their middle and high school students work with sentence structure using New York Times models. They also pose a sentence-writing challenge for your students.

By Blake Bockholt and Jodi Ramos

News Groups: A Simple but Powerful Media Literacy Idea to Build Community

An English teacher tells how she adapted the structure of book groups to help her students become critical consumers of news.

By Jessica Kirkland

Teaching Impeachment: 7 Ideas From Our Readers

Teachers from around the country suggest how, and why, to help students make sense of this historic moment.

By Natalie Proulx

How One School Uses The New York Times Across Its Curriculum

A library media specialist tells us about the ways her school — from the science department to the principal’s office — teaches with The Times.

By Susan Shatford

Compassion in Action: Humanizing Politics and Inspiring Global Change

A Florida teacher offers a framework based on resources from The New York Times to teach students how to “think globally and act locally.”

By Michael Kokozos

Our 2020-21 Writing Curriculum for Middle and High School

A flexible, seven-unit program based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and informational essays.

Unit 1: Documenting Your Life in Extraordinary Times

This special unit acknowledges both the tumultuous events of 2020 and their outsize impact on young people — and invites teenagers to respond creatively.

By The Learning Network

Unit 2: Teach Narrative Writing With The New York Times

This teaching guide, the second in our seven-unit writing curriculum, includes daily writing prompts, lessons based on selected mentor texts, and the announcement of a new personal narrative essay contest.

By The Learning Network

Unit 3: Analyzing Arts, Criticizing Culture: Writing Reviews With The New York Times

An invitation for students to write about food and fashion, movies and music, books and buildings for a global audience. Featuring writing prompts, mentor-text lesson plans and a culminating contest.

By The Learning Network

Unit 4: Informational Writing

We invite both STEM and humanities teachers to consider ways to inject more life into what is perhaps the least-loved genre of academic writing.

By The Learning Network

Lesson of the Day

Lessons of the Day & Teenagers in the Times

Writing Prompts

Student Opinion Q’s, Picture Prompts & Current Events Conversation

Quizzes

Weekly News Quiz, Word of the Day, Country of the Week & Student Crosswords

Multimedia

Film Club, What’s Going On in This Picture? & What’s Going On in This Graph?

Contests

Student Contests & Our Contest Calendar