Reading News Online
From Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship · 2018
2 min5thTechnologyReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
Online news articles have parts worth checking before you trust or share them — headline, author, date, and source. This video (2:16) walks fifth graders through reading news online more critically.
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Discussion
“Reading News Online” helps children check the important parts of an online news article before trusting it.
- What parts of a news article should you check before believing it?
- Why does it matter who wrote an article and when it was published?
- What would make you doubt whether an online article is trustworthy?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: source, author, headline, credible.
Try it: Find a real news article and circle its headline, author, and publish date, then decide if it seems credible.