Reading Literature Like A Journalist

CNL News Lesson

Lesson Outline

pair reading
Written By:
Glenn Hadzima
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News Literacy Summer Institute 2011
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This lesson takes students through the process of examining their reading of fiction, identifying when that reading is passive, and 
then directs them to strategies such as VIA to begin reading more critically.

 

News Literacy Connections:

  • News Literacy Lesson 9: Evaluating Sources
    • Use the IMVA/IN (Independent, Multiple, Verified, Authoritative/Informed, Named) mnemonic to verify sources.
  • News Literacy Lesson 4: Know Your Neighborhood
    • News is characterized as a piece of information that has gone through the journalistic process of Verification, and for which an Independent individual or organization is directly Accountable.

 

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