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When introduced at an early age, newspaper reading can be achieved in kids without much difficulty. This can be by introducing reading as an enjoyable activity. It should be highly motivating and not stressful for the children. Games and surprises should be part of newspaper content. Children will be interested with something fun and enjoyable. Also, a media participatory culture should be instilled in children by making them part of the process, they would end up loving to engage in print media forms like newspapers, journals and magazines. Children will develop interest in reading the news provided they are well presented for their liking. The more colorful and interesting the news is, the more enjoyable children will be. Newspaper publishers should endeavour to lay emphasis on the form, and the editors should do the same for the content when designing kids’ newspapers, journals and magazines. The form should be highly interesting, with short texts in big colourful prints and illustrations that easily narrate the stories to enable easy understanding. On the parts of the editors, the choice of the content should depend on the ability and age of the children, and must respect their intellectual capacity and meet their information needs; the content should reflect something which they can relate to. Cultivating a media savvy, literate and participatory child population, will require institutional or curricula changes in schools in the long run. But in the short term to address this situation in the classrooms and in our homes, we can begin to build the appreciation of reading by adopting the newspaper or education magazines in our classrooms as a tool for reinforcing the teaching of civic knowledge, or economics, or social studies (Onwubiko, 2010). The government can help subsidizing the cost of production of the newspapers, and advertising can also help to cut down the cost, so that the newspapers can be delivered to children at their schools. The problem of inadequate availability and accessibility of the children newspapers to the end users can be eliminated Download 261.2 Kb. Share with your friends:
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