First News is the award-winning weekly newspaper for children. Every week, the specialist First News journalists provide up-to-date, insightful and dynamic articles on a range of subjects from politics to popular culture, from science to citizenship. From reluctant readers to high achievers, with our resources we make reading exciting, relevant and fun for thousands of pupils across the world. Our reading activities use current event to make literacy relevant and exciting in the classroom. Puzzles and comprehensions help grow pupils’ knowledge, ideas, opinions and vocabulary of cross-curricular content, while developing core reading skills including inference, deduction, summarising and the ability to form reasoned opinions. – The National Literacy Trust says First News “significantly improves” reading skills. – Teachers say First News transforms attitudes to reading – “We love First News … It opens a door to the world of knowledge.” say pupils of Howard Junior School