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Home » Resources » Decoding the News: Building Savvy Media Consumers

Decoding the News: Building Savvy Media Consumers

Objective: This lesson will promote understanding about what it means to be “news literate” and how learning to analyze media reports about current events can foster civic engagement.

http://www.scholastic.com/americanjustice/pdfs/ABOTA_TE_Instructions_Stu%20Wksts.pdf
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Resource provided by ABOTA Foundation

Grades

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects

Media Literacy

Resource Types

Lesson Plans, Primary Sources

Teaching Strategies

Analysis, Primary Source, Media, Current Event, Whole Class, Whole Class Discussion, Small Group, Small Group Discussion, Individual Work, Writing

Tags

media, civic engagement

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