Printing out kid friendly articles and having them evaluate the articles in person - and the teacher vets the articles
National Geographic Kids
PBS Kids
Teach web domain evaluation (.com, .edu, .gov)
Teach kids the different types of websites (reddit vs NASA official site). Have kids research both reddit and NASA). State facts you find. Do other articles match the information.
Teaching lateral reading to elementary
Using multiple books on the same topic and compare - information - is the same information mentioned in both books. If the same info is mentioned in both books - is it presented differently
Provide sentence stems with the different sources you give the students - provide students with the websites and books already picked out
Use Time for Kids - another kind of news source but Kid appropriate articles
YouTube Kids -
Do as a class wide lesson - not individual - students could pick the sources and give to the teacher and then the teacher goes through them source by source to demonstrate the process
Do you have 2 different websites the kids compare? Doing the front end work for the students
Collaborate with the school librarian
Additional Lateral Reading / Evidence
https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/collections/intro-lessons
https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/lessons/intro-to-whats-the-evidence-saturday-school?cuid=intro-lessons
