1 As Far as the Eye Can See Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This resource uses a variety of television advertisements to teach features of visual and verbal media. This instructional unit, developed as part of a project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to discuss how the visual and verbal features of advertisements are used to promote ideas and products.... 2 Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students work with partners to create biographical projects about each other. Each pair of students reads background information about each other, plans and conducts interviews, and writes articles about each other.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–8 Professional Commentary: This unit uses radio stations (local stations or Internet-based broadcasts) to reinforce students' understanding of audience. After listening to and analyzing a variety of radio stations for content, language, style, advertising and music, students use the collected data to ascertain the audience being targeted.... 4 Child Labor: Giving Voice to the Industrial Revolution Through Monologues Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading, Social Studies Grades: Grade 8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore issues related to child labor, particularly as it occurred in England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution. Selected websites describe (with text, illustrations, and photographs) the conditions under which children labored during the Industrial Revolution.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore several radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. After reading an article about news radio programming in Afghanistan, students plan and present a radio news show.... 6 Video Production of a Newscast Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students research, write, and produce a 20 minute news broadcast. Working in small groups, students create and film a two minute segment of a school news show.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn oral presentation techniques for informal and formal speech. Working in small groups, students begin with informal speeches to gain the confidence and skills required for effective public speaking.... |