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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Watching the Clock: Building Media Savvy Students

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A instructional activity that leads students to an understanding of the time constraints on broadcast news by applying data-collecting and data-display skills. Students will learn to identify the main difference between publicly funded news programs such as "NewsHour" and commercial television evening news.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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commercial media, lesson plans, news broadcasting, public media, public television, sound bytes, television news, news hour, pbs, media literacy, gathering news
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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