Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that can be used as caption-writing activities, along with useful talking points and between-the-lines commentaries.

Concepts

captions, editorial cartoons, political cartoons, visual literacy

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Additional Tags

21st century skills, caption writing, creative thinking, news analysis, nie, nieonline: cartoons for the classroom: lessons library, media literacy

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

CCRA.R.6 CCRA.R.7 RH.9-10.10 CCRA.SL.2 RH.9-10.4 RH.11-12.10 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.10 RH.6-8.6 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.5 RH.6-8.8