Media Literacy
Trusted Resources for Navigating Modern Media
In a world of endless content streams, platforms, screen time, and generative AI, understanding and interpreting media is more important than ever. Yet, not all students have the strategies or knowledge to do so. Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, classroom activities, and more.
Media Literacy for the Digital Era
A School and District Guide to Navigating Modern Media
Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, and classroom activities, including a media timeline and a crossword puzzle.
Research Right, Think Bright!
Help students compare and evaluate sources, organize their findings, and conduct accurate, effective research with Teach Britannica’s versatile tools.
Compare Sources
5Ws and 1H
Analyzing Political Cartoons
Claim, Evidence, Reason Web
Evaluating Resources
Keep it Real: 5 Fact-Checking Tips
False information spreads quickly—whether through technology or word of mouth. Navigating truth in today’s fast-paced world requires sharp skills and smart strategies. These printable posters offer five tips to help your learners spot the truth.
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Teaching Tools, Sourced and Simplified!
Discover quick, impactful strategies to elevate student questioning and evaluation skills.
Evaluating Evidence
The Evaluating Evidence strategy encourages students to critically read and analyze information and evidence as they construct an explanation to answer a question. This strategy helps students actively read and process what they have read. It also encourages them to compare and synthesize information from multiple sources and perspectives as they form a conclusion and explain their thinking.
Question It!
Question It! is a discussion and collaboration strategy that invites students to generate and explore their questions about a text. Students create various types of questions independently and collaboratively and engage in group discussions to deepen text comprehension. This approach develops critical thinking and inquiry skills while promoting active reading.
Media Literacy in Action
Uncover new ways to incorporate media literacy strategies into your classroom or library. Click the links below to view recorded sessions.
Start Strong. Finish with Impact.
Quick, media literacy-focused activities that spark thinking, assess understanding, and build essential skills—all in under 10 minutes.
Bell Ringer
Comparing the News
Students compare and contrast news items to identify shared themes.
Bell Ringer
Headlines Detectives
Students analyze headlines to predict the content of news stories.
Bell Ringer
Sequencing the News
Students practice sequencing the main events described in a news article.
Bell Ringer/Exit Ticket
Two Facts and One Fake
Students read a text, write two facts and one fake statement about it, and then challenge partners to identify the fake using textual evidence.
Bell Ringer/Exit Ticket
Skim and Summarize
Students read an informational text and write a structured summary identifying the main idea and two supporting details.
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