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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Research Guide for Students: Guidelines on How to Write a Bibliography
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from A Research Guide For Students Web site, features highly comprehensive guidelines to compiling an accurate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Internet Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from eduScapes, describes the process of evaluating Internet sites. The page includes links to interesting hoax s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack, White and Digitized All Over: Examining the Pros and Cons of Print Newspapers and Online News Sites
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the pros and cons of getting news from print newspape...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's Fit to Print? Learning How to Read a Newspaper Critically
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students evaluate how newspapers are constructed and evaluate the exte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPress Review: Comparing Newspaper and Television Reports on the State of the Union Address
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 2 additional..This lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, encourages students to compare and contrast the methods used by both news...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHail to the Chief: Exploring Front Page Coverage of Presidential Election Outcomes in the 20th Century
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how the "New York Times" has represented presidential...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThat's News to Me!: Learning About and Creating a News Media Museum
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed, American Democracy, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the Newseum and create their own museum exploring...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSecond Sun: Exploring the Reinvention of the "New York Sun"
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the new "New York Sun" newspaper as a vehicle to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHave Web, Will Travel! Creating Web-Based Travel Guides for Vacation Destinations
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Geography and 2 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the many applications of the Internet in travel p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkParents' Choice: Critically Evaluating Web Sites Aimed at Helping Parents and Guardians Make Decisions About Their Children
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students evaluate Web sites offering services, programs, and supplies ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTell It Like It Is: Debating the Reliability of Online Information Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Oral PresentationsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider the accuracy of the Web sites they regularly use. Th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Students to Evaluate Internet Information Critically
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Technology, Professional DevelopmentThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses how finding and using information on the Internet requires s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNewspaper Reporting and Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..In this PBS lesson, from the Michael Palin s Heminway Adventure, students author a newspaper about Hemingway s life, especially ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe War in Vietnam: A Story in Photographs
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Writing Strategies and 4 additional..This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to Article I, Section 8, which grants Congre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompare and Contrast Electronic Text with Traditionally Printed Text
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Reading ComprehensionThe purpose of this ReadWriteThink lesson is to familiarize students with the similarities and differences between electronic te...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritical Media Literacy: TV Programs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, provides a platform from which students can critically analyze popular television programs. Th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses narrative structures to introduce students to one form of expository writing--news briefs...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoting! What's It All About?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students both listen to information read aloud from a variety of sources and read from fict...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesign a Travel Brochure
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children create a travel brochure to share information about a place they have visited or ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Electronic and Print Texts About the Civil War Soldier
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Reading ComprehensionTo complete research for any kind of writing project, students need effective comprehension strategies for both print and online...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0