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.... 2 Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides a platform for examining popular television programs and the impact of popular media through a critical literacy lens. By looking at the media critically, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the television programs and are challenged to consider different perspectives and multiple points of view.... 3 Making and Writing Words Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: Making and Writing Words is a teacher guided word study activity. A variation of the making words activities developed by Patricia Cunningham, this resource provides regular opportunities for students to learn about the spelling structure of words in order to improve word recognition skills.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This resource uses magazine advertisements and television commercials to examine the persuasive techniques seen in the media. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to develop oral and written responses to the advertisements.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Science, Reading Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This resource is a lesson for teaching public speaking. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to work in small groups to write effective introductions, organize their speeches, and request feedback from peers.... 6 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.... 7 I Beg to Differ: Debating Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource is an instructional unit in which students use formal speaking skills to communicate major ideas supported by key details. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to research examples relevant to their topic and use a range of speaking skills during a debate.... 8 Through the Eyes of a Child: Creating Documentaries from the Perspectives of Adolescents Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore how documentaries can present realistic and sometimes difficult perspectives on events in our world. Students begin by watching video clips from the film "Gaza Strip" and sharing their insights.... 9 Myth and Truth : The "First Thanksgiving" Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–7 Professional Commentary: Behind every myth are many possible truths. As they read and discuss the pilgrims, and the first Thanksgiving, students think critically about commonly believed myths regarding native people in colonial America.... 10 The Reading Performance : Understanding Fluency Through Oral Interpretation Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This lesson examines how the oral reading of poetry may be used to support and improve fluent reading for middle school students. Central to this lesson is the idea that students require practice and repetition to master decoding skills for fluency and comprehension in oral reading.... |