Lesson Resources
These resources can help you create lessons in guiding students to be more information and media literate.
TED: How to Choose Your News Lesson
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This treasure trove has a variety of resources for you to use in your classroom. They will even offer webinars for you and your students.
Specific Resources
Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy: Create lessons and units for your students from this information
Media Literacy Booster Pack: This collection encompasses many media literacy topics, not just news literacy
The Center for News Literacy is sponsored by the Stony Brook University School of Journalism. It claims to be the home for news literacy. Currently, many of their resources are under revision, however these resources are said to be quite remarkable.
Common Sense Media Lessons & Resources
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News and Media Literacy Parent Concern: Common Sense Media has gathered many resources, including videos and graphics, to help parents in teaching about responsible news reading.
News and Media Literacy Educator Toolkit: On this page, Common Sense Media features a variety of information to help you with teaching media and news literacy, including K-12 curriculum.
This program at Brown University develops curriculum in partnership with historians in order to teach young people about current and historical issues.
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything
Check Please! Course in Media Evaluation
Information for this LibGuide was adapted from the News Literacy LibGuide developed by Caitlin Bennett at Londonderry Middle School. It is used with permission.