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Learning Partners is a collection of activites for students and parents to use at home in order to encourage young people to continue the learning process outside of the classroom. With a relaxed and casual format, Learning Partners encourages literacy, critical thinking, problem solving and creativity.
The program is comprised of a collection of educational activities for parents and kids. Each activity uses one or more sections of The Post, including Saturday and Sunday editions.
Thought-provoking and fun, these activities can help students from kindergarten to senior high school challenge their knowledge and test it using real-world applications. Students are challenged to:
- play bingo with the Metro section
- raise a hand-drawn garden with the Business section
- create an offbeat home with the Home section
Using Learning Partners, a parent and a school-age child can spend time together engaged in conversation, exchanging thoughts and ideas.
Schools that use The Post's NIE program, called Inside The Washington Post, benefit from having newspapers and supplemental classroom resources available for daily use in classrooms. Students take the newspapers home to complete assignments, use as research materials and to help with homework. Newspapers provide real-world learning for students and contribute to their knowledge of the world and, importantly, to the community in which they live.
Working together "partners" can spend five minutes or a couple of hours pursuing some of the activities found in the Learning Partners book. In the process, partners can learn a lot about each other, too.
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