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Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper: Activity 2 of 3

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This newspaper activity requires students to read eight headlines and then select what each would be about from the options given. When answers are submitted, an explanation is also given.
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper: Activity 3 of 3

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This newspaper activity is to look at the pictures provided, read what the stories are about, and select captions that would fit both the stories and the pictures.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and to support the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Where Did I Come From

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...
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PBS

Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
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Other

Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your students about critical viewing through this innovative instructional activity and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
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iCivics

I Civics: News Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use this library of mini-lessons to teach students to recognize high-standards journalism so they can make informed judgments about the information coming at them and to help them identify and deal with misinformation, bias, opinion, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: Mathematics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Of all the academic disciplines taught in middle and high school, the one we least expect to entail reading extended texts is in mathematics, but math texts present special literacy problems and challenges for young readers.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The demands of comprehending scientific text are discipline specific and are best learned by supporting students in learning how to read a wide range of scientific genres. Besides text structures emphasizing cause and effect, sequencing...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Summarizing Worksheets and Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this instructional resource, students will learn more about summarizing texts. Worksheets and PowerPoint lessons are provided to reinforce understanding about ways to summarize nonfiction texts and to identify main ideas. This module...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Learn how to summarize a section of a text with this site.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource is a poster that includes cues that will help students compare and contrast information. These questions can be applied to fiction and nonfiction passages.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Locate and Classify Information [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A blank T-Chart is provided for students to use as they sort facts into two categories. Students will classify science information with this aid.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Interpet History [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will read about a historical event and then illustrate their interpretations. Questions are included to extend the students' comprehension of the events.
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Other

Increased Comprehension With the Use of Imagery

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Info in a Video and an Article [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a video and an article about the same topic.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Guided Reading/listening Ques: Nonfiction[pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
This graphic organizer will assist students with taking notes connected nonfiction content. After taking notes with the graphic organizer, students will ask guiding questions listed on the sheet.