Object: News stories clipped from newspapers and pasted with pictures on some posterboard.

Good morning, boys and girls. How are you today? How many of you read the newspaper? If you can't read do you look at the pictures and have someone read the funnies to you? I thought so. I have brought some pictures and stories with me that I cut out of our newspaper during the last couple of days to share with you this morning and I hope that you understand them. I want you take a good look at all of them and then tell me about some of the things that you have seen. [Let them answer - automobile wrecks, drugs, crime, and other stories about bad things that have happened.]

Why do you think they put things like this in the newspaper? They could have told about the nice party that your mom and dad we…