About eSun in Education

Welcome to eSun in Education. eSun in Education provides classrooms with free online newspapers. In addition to the traditional K-12 schools, eSun in Education serves diverse learners of every age; charter & private schools, adult education programs, family literacy, juvenile detention, and college students are all eligible for eSun in Education services.

eSun in Education is the Daily News-Suns' commitment to literacy. Through generous sponsorship, this nonprofit program provides the online edition of newspaper, thematic units, lesson plans and curriculum guides at no cost to schools and educators at every level, including home schools and family literacy classrooms.

Newspapers are a living textbook - one that is always current, more appealing and less intimidating than regular course books. Critical thinking is the natural outgrowth of using a newspaper to learn. Unlike textbooks, which may be outdated by the time they get into student's hands, the online edition of the newspaper expands the curriculum with an unlimited amount of information to use as background for learning activities. Most importantly, as the cornerstone of civics literacy, the newspaper transforms students into interested active citizens.

To order eSun In Education

Get unlimited access to The Daily News-Sun and eSun In Education through the Daily News-Sun e-paper online program. Register for your own eSun In Education account by completing this order form and emailing as an attachment to eSun@yourwestvalley.com or faxing to 623-876-3699.

Students may NOT register for eSun In Education. Exceptions to this are student teachers in an accredited university/college education program working towards your education degree/certificate. Student teachers must be assigned to a classroom setting.

Additional resources

Kid Scoop believes kids want to learn and that learning is fun! Our educational activity pages teach and entertain. Our learning resources are used by both families and schools. Teachers use the page in schools to promote standards-based learning. Parents use the Kid Scoop materials to foster academic success, a joy of learning and family discussion.

The future is now. The digital newspaper is here!

1. Searchable Search by topic, person, event, or keyword to identify the information you want in seconds. You can even search up to two weeks previous for past articles.
2. Readable Zoom, highlight and print your favorite articles and picture.
3. Accessible Read it anywhere. At work, at home or anywhere, there is an Internet connection, or you can save it to your laptop and take it with you.
4. Convenient Every page of The Daily News-Sun is available using a standard Web browser; there are no lengthy downloads and no special programs to install.
5. Archives Review past issues of The Daily News-Sun for future reference and research.
6. Easy to Navigate Select your favorite section with a single click, view it in full height or full width, and scroll through pages with ease.
7. Environmentally Friendly By reading The Daily News-Sun electronically, there is less paper to recycle.

"Much has been said and written on the utility of newspaper; but one principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools, and by the children in families.

Try it for one session - Do you wish your child to improve in reading solely, give him a newspaper - it furnishes a variety, some parts of which must infallibly touch his fancy. Do you wish to instruct him in geography, nothing will so indelibly fix the relative situation of different places, as the stories and events published in the papers?

In time, do you wish to have him acquainted with the manners of the country or city, to the mode of doing business, public or private; do you wish him to have a smattering of every kind of science useful and amusing, give him a newspaper - the cheapest book that can be bought, and the more you buy the better for your children, because every part furnishes some new and valuable information."

June 8, 1795
Portland Eastern Herald

Lesson Plans:

• Coaching Students To Stay in School
• Does the Internet Encourage Cheating?

Skills Sheet:

• The Importance of a Diploma

Writing Prompt:

• Unescorted Prisoners Take the Bus

Ask Marilyn:

• A New Brain Teaser

Current Events Quiz:

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