REAL WORLD SKILLS- SOCIAL MEDIA: Safety, Privacy, Media Bias, Instagram, Reading

Improve Specific Reading Skills With These Relevant 'Real-World' Lessons!

Social media is here to stay… but there’s a lot to know about using social media in a safe, educated, and healthy way. How do you determine if what you're seeing online is accurate or true? Why does it seem that everyone else having more fun? These high-interest, life-skills lessons tackle relevant and engaging topics students will WANT to read about, in a light-hearted, easy-reading style.

Teens and ‘Experts’ offer helpful advice through text messages and high-interest reading passages. Follow-up questions challenge students to improve their specific reading skills while also guiding them to really think about what they've read and apply key concepts to their daily lives.... A great way to improve comprehension skills AND essential life skills... at the same time!

HIGH INTEREST TOPICS INCLUDE:

• "My online ‘friends’ are so cool, what is there to worry about?"

• "Why can’t I post whatever I want on social media?"

• "News is News... Why shouldn’t I believe everything I read and see?"

• "Why are there different versions of the same event?" - (Author's point of view)

• "Why isn’t my life as exciting and perfect as everyone else’s on Instagram and TikTok?"

• "It’s called Social Media... Privacy is beside the point. Right?"

• "This video is unreal... Wait, is it?"

• "This challenge has gone viral...I should do it, right?"

• "Which podcast is correct?"

• "How do I know what's true?
  

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STANDARDS-BASED READING ACTIVITIES:

Each high-interest lesson is followed by specific reading comprehension and writing activities that require complete-sentence answers.

• Determine Author’s Viewpoint 
• Summarize
• Generalize
• Compare & Contrast
• Cause & Effect
• Determine Fact from Opinion
• Determining What's True?
• Draw Conclusions 
• Main Idea
• Make Inferences
• Locate Information
• Use Context Clues
• Sequence  
• Critical Thinking: Analyze, Evaluate & Apply
  

Reading Level: Gr 3 - 4

Interest Level: Gr 6 - 12