Newspapers in Education have a Kidzone which has some great newspaper activities that you could use as part of your reading and writing programmes. Check out http://www.nieonline.co.nz/
When setting up the Shakeupschool Wiki for Christchurch schools in 2010 I put quite a few ideas from NIE and added in ways that students could use the ICT tools to add to the ways they capture and present information.
This work can be accessed at
http://shakeupschool.wikispaces.com/Y5-6Reading+Programmes#nie