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Since a recent Stanford study showed that students at practically all grade levels can't determine fake news from the real stuff, the push to teach media literacy has gained new momentum. This article gives five quality examples of teachers creating activities to help students how to recognize a reliable story from a reliable source. These examples can be used to teach students as young as fourth grade up to adult ELA students.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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