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Curated resources provided by a grassroots organization committed to ensuring students gain literacy skills essential to personal well-being and informed citizenship.

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Resources by Topic The resources listed here are intended as a convenience to educators, librarians, parents and students. These websites are operated independent of Media Literacy Now. If you have a resource to add to this page, please let us know! Race & Social Justice

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This powerful research platform enables users to access credible, up-to-date resources with user friendly tools.

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OXNARD UHSD Online Resources (Resources)

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An extensive collection of classroom resources;  includes a curated list of PBS Learning Media videos helpful for any teacher providing media literacy instruction.

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The Media Literacy Clearinghouse is a nationally recognized media literacy resource website developed by Frank W. Baker. Frank is a national Jessie McCanse Awardee and "Leaders in Learning" honoree. He is a consultant to the SC Writing Improvement Network, and former consultant to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). He has conducted hundreds of workshops for educators and students across the United States.

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Media Literacy Clearinghouse | Frank W. Baker

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The Media Literacy Clearinghouse is a nationally recognized media literacy resource website developed by Frank W. Baker. Frank is a national Jessie McCanse Awardee and "Leaders in Learning" honoree. He is a consultant to the SC Writing Improvement Network, and former consultant to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

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A nonprofit organization from the Stony Brook University School of Journalism that features resources and curricular materials on news literacy.

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The Center for News Literacy has prepared the following list of resources for news consumers.

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A resource portal to articles, lessons and curriculum links, as well as presentation slides on media literacy topics.

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Media Literacy Resources: Navigating a Digital Society Media Literacy in 2018: Top Five Combating Apathy in an Era of "Fake News" and Standardized Testing Ancient Texts, Modern Media Literacy Beyoncé and Black History: Get in Formation Literature: A Portal to Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
Understanding Media: How Messages Work
A free, self-directed course from Poynter. The course is for anyone who wants to become a critical media consumer.
Commentary vs. Journalism: Are journalists biased? Character Ed should link in lessons on Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship New Year's Resolution: Consume a Healthier News Diet Encouraging Lightbulb Moments: 'Single Stories' and the Lack of Diversity in the Media Making News Literacy a Trending Topic
Lesson Links
Diagnosing Propaganda Techniques in Campaign Ads: Civic Discourse and Media Literacy Lesson: is it News or Opinion?
American Press Institute's Introductory News Literacy Units
These are lightweight, general usage lesson plans for introducing students to how to read and understand news media and current events. While the Institute offers more specific and in-depth materials and ideas for promoting news literacy, these units provide a resource for the time-pressed teacher. Split into three units of one-to-two weeks each, the curriculum briefly overviews critical elements in news understanding and healthy processes for determining source information and bias. Individual lessons can be adapted and used to fit specific classroom needs.

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An infographic and accompanying lesson plan from The News Literacy Project give educators a way to apply news literacy to examples of information they or their students select.

Digital Collection of Short News Literacy Lessons
The News Literacy Project offers lesson plans to educators and others interested in news literacy on its Learn Channel.

Journalism Education Association - Understanding News Literacy
Developed by Megan Fromm for the Journalism Education Association and made possible through a grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.

Lesson: A Consumer's Guide to Sourcing in News Reports
An e-learning lesson teaching teens how to evaluate sourcing in a news story with Paul Saltzman of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Searchlights and Sunglasses
A free digital book and learning tool from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Eric Newton. For specific ideas on how to teach news literacy in your classroom, check out the "learning layer" activity called " How do you know what to believe? "

Weekly Lesson Feed and Other Classroom Materials
Prepared by the Center for News Literacy at Stonybrook University.

Check It Out on the Web
Students need to know how to find accurate information on the Internet. By giving them the goal of learning about online newspapers, they can research a topic (putting their school newspaper online) as well as use Internet research techniques.
Curriculum Set 1
Day 1
News Literacy Lesson - Day One
News Literacy PowerPoint - Day One Key Word Note-taking Template

Day 2
News Literacy Lesson - Day Two
News Literacy PowerPoint - Day Two
Scavenger Hunt Bingo
Curriculum Set 2
The American Society of News Editors and the Journalism Education Association in partnership with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute offer free news literacy lessons for English/language arts, science, math and social studies teachers to use in secondary-school classrooms. Funding for the project was provided by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.

ASNE and JEA worked with educators affiliated with the American Bar Association Division of Public Education, the National Council for the Social Studies, the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Teachers Association to develop the lesson plans.

A Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License allows teachers to adapt the lessons for educational purposes. Teachers can use the lessons as a springboard to incorporate news literacy skills into every academic discipline and help students learn critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging the reliability of news and information in everyday problem-solving and real-life experiences.
English/Language Arts Model News Literacy Curriculum Math Model News Literacy Curriculum
PowerPoints Grades 7/8
Buffalo Blizzard
All the Ants Counting the Hungry
PowerPoints Grades 9/10
Verifying Probability in the News
Statistics in the News Discussion-Warmup Understanding the Distribution of a Set of Data Using Variation to Evaluate Statistics Scatter Plot Review Using the Regression Line to Make Predictions Science Model News Literacy Curriculum PowerPoints
Grades 9-10 Water In The United States Grades 11-12 Know Your News Social Studies Model News Literacy Curriculum

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Article Links Media Literacy Resources: Navigating a Digital Society Media Literacy in 2018: Top Five Combating Apathy in an Era of "Fake News" and Standardized Testing Ancient Texts, Modern Media Literacy Beyoncé and Black History: Get in Formation Literature: A Portal to Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Understanding Media: How Messages Work A free, self-directed course from...