LibGuides: Monroe 1&amp;2 Media Literacy: Read Like a Detective

Developing Digital Detectives

Monroe 2 BOCES Region SORA Copy
If you teach in the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES region, you can borrow a copy of this book through your SORA account.
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Monroe County Public Library
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Amazon
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EVIDENCE LOCKER!
Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the “Fake News” Era
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Lied to You as a Child
Article by Cara Giaimo from Atlas Obscura, Dec. 26, 2016
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“In fiction, we suspend all kinds of disbelief in service to a larger truth,” she says. “If, in pursuit of that truth, a pig must fraternize with an elephant, then so be it.”
Classroom Activity: Is it "checkable"?
Activity from News Literacy Project
Designed for Grades 4-6
Truth, Lie, Opinion Game
Activity created in Google Slides that you can use, copy, and remix with your own questions.
I taught my 5th-graders how to spot fake news. Now they won’t stop fact-checking me.
By Scott Bedley, from Vox posted Mar 29, 2017
How this educator gamified media literacy and fact checking for his 5th graders.

Project Look Sharp has written lesson plans for embedding lateral reading and fact checking into multiple curricular areas and using their constructivist media decoding methodology.
Developing Digital Detectives Lessons
Jennifer LaGarde's Lessons

You can take these quizzes and remix them however you want.

Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements?
Quiz from Pew Research- 10 questions
Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News
How well did adults do with identifying facts and opinions from the news? Results broken down and analyzed by demographics.

Teaching Lateral Reading (SHEG)
This will take you to the SHEG, Civic Online Reasoning curriculum and more specifically, the six lateral reading lesson plans.

Create a free account with SHEG to access their teaching materials.

Links to Individual Lessons:

Click here to learn how to expand your view with lateral reading. (from the News Literacy Project)

About Twitter Verified Accounts
How does Twitter verify accounts, and who do they do this for? Read this linked article to find out!