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Current Event Report Year Long Templates with Guided Questions for High School
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Current Event Report Year Long Templates with Guided Questions for High School

This media literacy resource gives you a year long student booklet for writing current event reports that empowers high school students to analyze news stories and write compelling reports. The 163-page student booklet uses guided questions that scaffolded current event report writing into easy-to-understand sections, perfect for ELLs and emerging bilingual learners. With the writing and media tips embedded in the booklet, your students will build valuable media literacy skills each week of the year. Hone critical thinking skills, master the art of reporting factual information, and write a current event report each week of the school year.

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If you have ESL or ELL students, this resource will be invaluable to you. Designed with second langauge learners in mind, this package helps to scaffold the learning for all types of learners, giving you differentiation along the way.Perfect for high school grades 9-12, this year long current event resource is everything you need to get students writing current event reports each week of the school year. It is ready-to-use and provides all the tools your students need to both learn how to write a current event report and excel in presenting it:

✅ Detailed Assignment Pages: There are lots of instructional pages and guidelines for students that will help them understand the expectations of reporting on the news and approach the weekly task with confidence.

✅ Guided Questions: With 52 different current event writing ‘tips’, ranging from using the passive voice to unmasking bias, to humanizing events and presenting information chronologically students will not only learn how to write reports; they’ll study how to consume the news and media more critically.

✅ Key Language: Practical guides and extensive vocabulary lists empower students to write professional and engaging reports.

✅ Current Event Templates: For each week, there are two comprehensive templates pages with guiding questions that give yours students a structured framework for crafting impactful reports.

 

Beyond report writing, this resource fosters valuable skills your students will carry throughout their lives.

☑️ Critical Thinking & Media Literacy: Students learn to analyze news sources, identify key information, and approach information consumption with a discerning eye. Through the writing tips, they learn about unmasking bias, writing in the passive voice, finding credible sources, and much more!

☑️ Summary Skills: Students develop the ability to condense complex information while retaining essential details for a clear and concise report.

☑️ Grammar & Style: Students practice using passive voice and reported speech effectively, enhancing their overall writing skills.

☑️ Power Assessment Tool: You’ll also get two grading rubrics with criteria in this package: one for teachers and one for students to self-assess.

☑️ Versatile Learning Experience: Use this resource in your physical classroom with the printable pages OR take it online with Google Slides and use it remotely for distance learning.

Worried about how to structure this resource and align it with your curriculum? Don’t be! The resource notes that come with this package are extensive and give you great ideas for using this effectively in your classes. It event breaks up the current event student booklet into different sections, so you’ll be able to pace the instruction of it easily.

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This package includes a zipped file with two PDF files that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with resource notes that ensure you can use it effectively. A link for the Google Slides version is available in the resource notes section of this resource.

⭐ Get the Bundle for Big Savings ⭐
Purchase my Media Literacy BUNDLE to get this Current Event Student Booklet plus Media Bias News Articles Volume 1, Media Bias News Articles Volume 2, and Fake News Reading Comprehension at an incredible discount.

Looking for lessons with a similar theme to this? Check out my Fake News: Media Bias Reading Comprehension Lesson here.

You may also like my lesson on How to Debate.

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This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses.Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.

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