Children's BBC Newsround
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/
A United Kingdom news website with articles about events, arts and science that will be useful to anyone interested in what’s happening in the world. Browse thematic picturecollections, play a game, participate in an online opinion poll, or just catch up on World News.
Teachers, don’t miss the teacher’s resources pages. Hundreds of news-based lessons are listed by topic. Most notable are the literacy resources. The lessons that cover topics from parts of speech through tenses come complete with worksheets. The more substantive lessons are based upon complete and comprehensible texts and provide complete guides to writing book reviews, poetry and reports. There are also lessons focused on important reading and writing skills like skimming, summarizing and proofreading.
