This reading passage for high school will get your students thinking about the social implications of too much social media use and how it has impacts communication between people. It comes with carefully crafted reading tasks and activities to introduce your students to topic and get them reading and discussing instant gratification and loss of empathy. Complete with academic vocabulary words essential for discussing the topic of social media, as well as active reading tasks that help build better reading skills, this lesson will get your students to know the value of face-to-face communication.
This high school reading comprehension passage on Social Media gets your 9th-12th graders thinking critically about the impact social media has had on society by using advanced reading activities that are proven to build better reading abilities:
- Topic preview activity
- Prediction task
- Academic vocabulary tasks
- Main idea and details questions
- Critical thinking questions on empathy
- Writing practice for putting what they learned into practice.
This lesson on social media is perfect for high school ELL and ESL students or in any type of literacy center for upper high school. It is great for supplementary lessons or homework assignments. With the reading comprehension activities built into the design of the pre-planned lesson, your students will engage with the topic more rigorously than ever before.
✅ Get Your Planning Time Back: No need to plan for a reading lesson using this package. When you purchase this Social Media Reading Comprehension Resource, you’ll get a complete lesson plan that scaffolds the learning into easy-to-understand parts. The topic is presented in a way that maximizes engagement AND builds reading skills. The planning of this reading lesson is already done!
✅ Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work: The secret to this non-fiction reading passage and questions is in how they are presented. Students read and unpackage the topic of Social Media in a way that reduces the stress of academic reading. The activities guide them towards better understanding of instant gratification and empathy, while training their reading skills organically.
✅ An Advanced Topic Made Easy: This non-fiction reading comprehension passage for high school students introduces the complex ideas of instant gratification and empathy in a way that makes sense to students. They’ll read how excessive screen use actually rewires the brain and how uninhibited comments online actually work towards decreasing one’s empathy. Your students will finally understand the benefits and risks of social media.
✅ Follow Up Learning with a Writing Activity: Not only will students be reading about social media; they’ll be writing about it. At the end of the lesson, as an extension activity, students can comment on a fictitious chat forum, offering advice to a father who just doesn’t understand his teenage daughter and her obsession with social media.
WHAT TEACHERS on TpT ARE SAYING:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kim said, “This was a great resource to use with my argument unit. The topic was social media, and it allowed my students to gain more knowledge to support their side and rebut the opposing side.”
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This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with a lesson plan and a high-resolution cover page so you can show it off.
You’ll get three ways to use this incredible reading resource:
- high-resolution pages
- gray-scaled pages for easy printing
- AND digital access for distance learning Google Slides®
This Non Fiction Reading Comprehension Passage on Social Media is also part of my 21st Century Language Learning Bundle. Purchase it now and get this resource, plus other exciting topics like Smartphone Addiction and ChatGPT that focus on training language skills, at a huge discount.
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