✅ What’s Included:

• Six Scaffolded Lessons: Step-by-step lessons that build students' ability to explore media in all its forms.

• Teaching Slides: Ready-to-use Google Slides and PDFs that model analysis across media and guide each lesson.

• Student Booklet: Printable/digital pages for note-taking, checklists, organizer charts, and compare/contrast tasks.

• Evaluation Checklists & Criteria: Co-create with students or use the included teacher versions for reliability and bias, purpose, audience, tone, evidence, and technique.

• Reference Guides: Anchor charts for central idea vs. details, point of view, credibility/bias, text structures/features, and multimedia elements.

• Discussion Protocols & Exit Tickets: Turn-and-talk stems, Socratic prompts, quick checks for understanding.

• Rubrics & Assessments: Ready rubrics for media evaluations and a summative comparison (paragraph, one-pager, or short presentation).

✨ Here’s What They’ll Learn:

• Nonfiction & Media Fundamentals: Determine central ideas and select relevant evidence across modalities.

• Author’s Purpose & Point of View: Analyze tone, stance, and bias—and how they shape meaning and impact.

• Structure & Technique: Examine how text features, audio cues, visuals, and editing choices contribute to understanding.

• Integrating Information: Compare/contrast print, audio, video, and multimedia to judge effectiveness for a specific purpose and audience.

• Objective Summary & Explanation: Produce clear summaries and evidence-based analyses using academic vocabulary.

Why This Works:
Focused checklists + a consistent booklet routine turn abstract media literacy into concrete, repeatable steps. Students practice the exact skills assessed on state tests while engaging with real-world media—no heavy prep required.

Perfect For:

• Middle school ELA units on informational text and media literacy

• Assessment prep, current events study, or cross-content research

• Teachers who want rigorous analysis with flexible, low-prep materials