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Why Use the News?
Strengthen reading comprehension | Build background knowledge | Contribute to citizenship skills
Support the development of empathy | Bridge between home and school | Spark intellectual curiosity | Develop critical thinking skills |
Develop communication and collaborative skills
Media Literacy Strategies for Exploring News and Current Events with Young Children
1. DESCRIBE: What's inside the frame?
2. IMAGINE: What's outside the frame?
3. ASK QUESTIONS: What do you want to know?
4. LEARN MORE: Gather new information by reading or listening
5. REFLECT: What's important here?
6. COMPOSE: Share what you've learned
Case Studies
Grade 1: Share Emotional Response to Build Empathy
Grade 2: Engage and Reframe to Understand Children's Interpretation Processes
Grade 3: Create a News Broadcast to Explore the Conventions of Journalism
Grade 4: Debate a Current Events Popular Culture Controversy
Grade 5: Talk Back to the News Media
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Digital and Media Literacy Competencies
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Engaging: connecting to lived experience and stimulating curiosity and motivation |
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Locating: finding and selecting information |
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Comprehending: constructing meaning through active interpretation |
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Analyzing: identifying author, audience, purpose and point of view and examining the relationship between form and content |
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Evaluating: making judgments about the value and worth of a particular message |
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Communicating: composing or creating a message using the processes of brainstorming, composition and revision. |
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Taking Action: disseminating a message to an authentic audience for the purpose of making a difference in the world outside the classroom |