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ELED 436 - Teaching Social Studies to Diverse Learners

Lateral Reading Activity

Open up:

 

Take a look at the 4th Lesson: Lateral Reading with News Stories 

Look at both the student and teacher materials for this lesson.

 

How do you teach 3rd and 4th graders how to evaluation online information?

  • How would you teach them what a reliable source is? And who an authority on a topic might be?
  • How would you teach them to question who is behind the information they read?
  • How would you teach them it is important to find multiple sources of information when they are writing about a topic?