This publication describes 97 classroom activities that employ the newspaper as an aid for teaching language arts skills. The activity ideas are grouped according to four categories: creative writing (ideas for writing such pieces as news accounts of events in stories and poems, letters to the editor, and reviews of books and television programs); working with words (activities that teach such skills as skimming, vocabulary development, spelling, and punctuation); speech and discussion (ideas for such activities as reading news stories aloud, discussing human-interest stories, and conducting interviews for jobs advertised in the classified section); and "potpourri" (a wide range of ideas for learning about the newspaper, creating newspaper columns, class newspapers, and advertising layouts, and developing communication skills). (GW)