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One of the keys ways to help students develop their reading skills is to help them find something they're interested in reading about. Learning about their names, and the name of their family members and friends, could certainly fit into the "high-interest" category. And there are several websites that are designed to facilitate learning just that. After exploring these sites (or before), students can also talk with their family to learn other stories behind their names.

Very neat project using students names.

Bring the News to Life Would you like your students to browse newspapers from around the world? Would your students be interested in a kaleidoscopic reading of news reports? If you answered yes, then you should visit Today's Front Pages, which is run by the Newseum in Washington, D.C. As the name implies, Today's Front Pages provides daily access to newspapers all over the globe. There are three ways to read them: with the use of the gallery, list or map. In any of these three possibilities, the front pages may be sorted by geographical region. The site provides access to more than 800 front pages from 70 countries, updated daily. After choosing the newspaper you want to read, you can print the front page or open it in PDF format.