7 Ways to teach current affairs to kids

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War, economics, crisis, famine and politics. How can we teach our children about the current affairs happening around the world? Little Genius shares 7 exciting ways to teach current affairs to your children.

Listening for details - Ask your children to listen carefully as you read a story from the newspaper. Then you can ask them questions that are based on the story to know how many details they have paid attention to.

Introduce them to a News Scavenger Hunt - Provide your children with a list of things that they need to search on the front page of the newspaper. They can hunt for maths-related words and terms (a percent, a measurement of distance, a cost, an address or a fraction) or grammar-related terms such as (a present tense verb, a past-tense verb, a proper noun, an abbreviation, a colon and a list separated by commas). You can also ask them to scavenge the sports page for sports-related terms to increase their knowledge about sports.

A to Z adjectives - Make your children write A to Z on a sheet of paper. Challenge them to search the adjectives on the day’s front page for an adjective that begins with these alphabets. Students can write these adjectives in the list they have created.

Abbreviation/ Acronym search - The names of organisations are shortened to their acronyms when they are used in news stories. For instance, American Broadcasting Corporation becomes ABC, National Organisation for Women becomes NOW and National Aeronautics and Space Organisation becomes NASA. Also, abbreviations are used for state names and titles such as JK for Jammu & Kashmir and Gen. for General.

Local, national and international -  To develop their understanding of the news story’s place, create a bulletin board with 3 sections. Ask your children to put the news relating to the community or state in the “Local” section, news relating to the country in the “National” section and world news in the “International” section.

The Five Ws - Introduce your children to the 5Ws found in most news stories. Often the 5Ws are mentioned in the opening paragraph of the story. Make them highlight or circle the 5Ws which are Who, What, Why, Where and When. You can ask them to underline each of the five Ws with a different colour.

Why is it news? - Newspaper editors around the world make decisions about which stories they will publish on a specific day. Stories make it to newspapers for many different reasons. You can ask your children to go through the front page of newspapers every day and ask them to find out which kinds of stories made headlines. The stories in the newspaper are selected by identifying the following criteria.

Timeliness - News that is happening right now or the news of interest to the readers.

Relevance - The story happened nearby and is of concern to the local reader.

Magnitude - A tornado that destroys a couple of houses might not make the news but a tornado that devastates a community would be newsworthy.

Unexpectedness - Something unusual, or something unexpected occurs without warning

Impact - News that will affect a large number of readers

Oddity - A unique or unusual situation 


Emotions - Emotions (such as jealousy, hatred, fear or love) that can increase the interest in the story.


Hope you will enjoy using these fun-filled ways to teach current affairs to your children. Little Genius, is one of the leading GK classes for kids in Ahmedabad. If you wish to groom your children in current affairs, get in touch with us. Visit our website today. https://littlegeniusacademy.co.in/

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