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Website
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Ire: Investigative Reporters and Editors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This non-profit group was created in 1975 as a networking tool for the exchange of ideas and attitudes concerning the quality of investigative reporting for the media. Site is newsletter-style with up-to-date information.
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Article
Other

Self growth.com: Questioning Skills for Salespeople

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The article deals with the difference between open-ended and closed questioning skills. Good questioning techniques can improve business.
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Article
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Interviewing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about different types of interviews, how to set up an interview, and important tips to remember during an interview.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Multimedia Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to methods of evaluating multimedia sources.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Multimedia Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on evaluating multimedia sources using the CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. Click on the NEXT button on the bottom right for more information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Uvcs: Critical Reading Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students read quotations from different "interest groups" or "lobbies" in this exercise and then perform a multiple-choice test to evaluate the credibility of each lobby group.
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Article
Other

Smekens: Integrate Information Across Diverse Media Formats

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Establishing a Culture of Questioning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses establishing a culture of questioning. When students consistently ask meaningful questions, they get comfortable taking the risks that lead to learning. SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Guidelines for Oral History Interviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Speaking to people with firsthand knowledge of an event is an important way to gather information. Use these guidelines to help prepare for an oral history interview.
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Professional Doc
Other

Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
We want to see kids asking tons of questions. This is how students grow into creative, critical thinkers. This article by John Spencer gives multiple ways teachers can foster an environment in which students feel comfortable asking...
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Professional Doc
Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
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Article
The Washington Post

Washingtonpost: Rewriting the Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Washington Post article dealing with ethics and guidelines of journalists reporting hard news. Provides material for debate and discussion. Interesting article.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing About Issues in the Media

For Teachers 12th Standards
In this lesson students analyze media coverage of current issues and present their findings in a formal research paper and class presentation.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
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Rubric
Other

Public Relations Writing: How I Grade a Press Release.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Specialized but useful rubric geared towards examining journalistic style writing. Provides evaluation guidelines that one teacher uses, with a rubric to evaluate.
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Website
Other

Newswriting for Radio

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students and writers can get pointers on improving writing skills for newscasts. Click through all the tabs to get the most out of this tutorial. This site also links to other radio journalism websites.
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Website
Other

Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
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Professional Doc
Other

In Time: Evaluating Media for Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a checklist, especially helpful for teachers, that details the way to check media elements to be used in the classroom for biases. This site provides six questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of the media in...
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Article
Other

Beginning Reporting: Getting Organized

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here are five quick tips to help you get organized for writing your story, from a professional newspaper reporter.
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Article
Other

Beginning Reporting: Story Structure, Three Options

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Three structures for newswriting are explained here, along with the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
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Professional Doc
Other

Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...