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Ideas for Incorporating Media Literacy Strategies for Late Elementary
Grades (and above)
- Read and interpret the disclaimers in TV commercials.
- Write about different print pictures, passing the pictures around from
child to child, and then comparing answers to see that different interpretations
can be made of the same picture.
- Write new endings for TV programs or movies, or write scripts for TV commercials
advertising a new product.
- Create bar charts comparing the "world" of TV to the real world
(for different races, ages, genders, occupations).
- Find and analyze percentages reported on products and in advertising (e.g.,
5% fruit juice; four out of five doctors).
- Keep activity logs for time spent using different forms of media vs. doing
other activities (e.g., doing homework, talking with parents, doing physical
exercise) and summarize with bar or circle charts for individuals and class
as a whole.
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