News Travels Fast

by Molly Blaisdell News Travels &AST jason WStamp Visit The Learning Site! www.harcourtschool.com Copyright © by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to School Permissions and Copyrights, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Fax: 407-345-2418. HARCOURT and the Harcourt Logo are trademarks of Harcourt, Inc., registered in the United States of America and/or other jurisdictions. Printed in Mexico ISBN-13: 978-0-15-352729-6 ISBN-10: 0-15-352729-3 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited and is illegal. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 050 11 10 09 08 07 06 Fast Travels News jason BStamp In the Past Sharing news and ideas is called communication. In the past, people drew pictures on rocks to share news. Later, people wrote books by hand. ��8VkZ�eV^ci^c\ 2 jason BStamp jason BStamp 3 The printing press made it easy to make books and newspapers. People could learn the news quickly. ��:Vgan�eg^ci^c\�egZhh jason BStamp jason BStamp 4 Big Changes Other things changed communication, too. Telephones let people talk at any time. Radios and TVs bring news into our homes. jason BStamp 5 Computers make communication easy. The Internet helps people everywhere communicate. You can send mail to a friend without paper. jason BStamp 6 In the Future Communication keeps getting faster. Once it took weeks to learn the news. Today, people get the news when it happens. jason BStamp 7 How will people communicate in the future? Your watch may be a telephone. You could talk on the phone by using your watch! E-Paper A new kind of paper is called electronic paper, or e-paper. It is light and thin. It can be used over and over. One day soon, newspapers may be printed on it. jason BStamp jason BStamp 8 1. How did people share news long ago? 2. Name one invention that changed how people communicate. 3. Why is it helpful to get the news as it happens? 4. How do you think communication will change? Work with a partner. Act out one way people share news and ideas. Photo Credits Front Cover Corbis. 2 Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; 3 Minnesota Historical Society/Corbis; 4 (t) PhotoDisc, Inc., (c) Rachel Epstein/PhotoEdit, Inc., (b) Michael Newman/PhotoEdit, Inc.; 5 Michael Newman/Photo Edit; 6 (bkgd) Corbis/Punch Stock, (inset) David Young-Wolff/Photo Edit; 7 (t) Laura Rauch/AP Photo, (c) Fujitsu Ltd.,HO/AP Photo. jason BStamp jason BStamp jason BStamp jason BStamp jason BStamp jason BStamp