To effectively teach news literacy, school districts need a clear roadmap of how concepts, skills and dispositions develop as students progress through grades PreK-12. The News Literacy Project developed this living document to accompany our Framework for Teaching News Literacy as a guide of scaffolded skills, content knowledge and dispositions for schools and districts seeking to implement news literacy curriculums. It’s designed to foster cross-curricular connections and complement already established benchmark requirements.

A resource for students to read Hamlet with audio recordings, vocabulary, character descriptions, and more!

Rhonda ‘Honey’ Duvall is an inspirational advocate, R&B singer, powwow dancer, and Native American storyteller. She is from the Navajo Nation (Diné) of the Tangle Clan and grew up splitting her time between the Navajo Blue Gap reservation in Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah where she currently lives and records her music.

In this lesson, students will examine, compare and synthesize information from primary sources to determine when, how and why the sego lily became Utah’s state flower.

We invite students to explain how to do any task in 400 words or fewer. Contest dates: Jan. 10 - Feb. 14, 2024

A writer and teacher shares a lesson for helping students understand the importance of clear, concise writing, and spotting needless words.

The internet is inconceivably large. In fact, it’s essentially endless! Sometimes it’s easy to find the information you need, but often trying to find something specific can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. This poster/handout outlines eight tips to help you improve your search results and zero in on what you’re looking for more quickly. It can be used with lateral reading or when teaching research.

We walk you through how to brainstorm a topic, interview an expert and write your own original “How to ….”

Students will analyze primary source documents from the women’s suffrage movement–both nationally and in Utah–to examine the tactics, strategies, and imagery used in this social movement. They will also evaluate the effectiveness of these tactics and strategies in affecting social and civic change.

This infographic offers an overview of how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning impact our beliefs and outlines some key tips on how to best defend ourselves against cognitive biases. Confirmation bias is an innate, unconscious tendency to interpret information in ways that confirm what we already believe — or want to believe. Similar to confirmation bias, motivated reasoning occurs when someone actively looks for reasons why they’re right and rejects facts and research that don’t fit their beliefs. And confirmation bias can actually cause people to engage in motivated reasoning.

Jorge Fierro was born in Chihuahua, Mexico to a family who valued education and wanted Jorge to become a success: either a lawyer or a doctor. But Jorge soon realized that he would follow his own path. Since he was a boy, he had always admired the philanthropic nature of the people of the United States– generous people who promoted the welfare of others by donating to good causes. Following his heart, and to the disappointment of his father, he leaves Mexico for the USA.

A resource for students to read Julius Caesar with audio recordings, vocabulary, character descriptions, and more!

This infographic presents eight distinct levels of scientific evidence arranged in a pyramid that reflects a spectrum of quality. Levels of evidence at the bottom are significantly more prone to error and bias than those at the top. The pyramid is reflective of the process of science itself: as initial hypotheses about a given question are tested, they are either disproven and discarded or they survive to be tested further. As more rigorous studies are completed, and as their results are compiled and analyzed, the picture painted by the evidence becomes clearer and more compelling.

Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as “generative AI.”

In today’s episode of our podcast Is that a fact?, guest host Jake Lloyd digs into how misinformation manifests in the sports world with author and journalist Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and host of the Spotify podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Hill discusses not only how sports falsehoods spread, but also how the nature of sports reporting makes it more resistant to manipulation than news coverage.

Have you ever scratched your head when reading an article or watching the news and wondered if you were getting facts or opinion? If so, you’re not alone. News organizations have not made it easy for consumers to differentiate between news and the views of an individual or media outlet.

Lorin Hansen grew up in Utah and has spent close to two decades studying Samba- a dance form associated with the Afro-Brazilian religion, culture, and history many centuries old. She started a nonprofit in Salt Lake City, Utah: SambaFogo.org, where she teaches Samba drumming and dance, and brings home the party and the lessons of her Brazilian mentors and teachers, cultivating the growing Utah Samba community.

A resource for students to read Macbeth with audio recordings, vocabulary, character descriptions, and more!

Dr. Masha Shukovich is a neurodivergent person with acute synesthesia that she describes as her superpower. Synesthesia essentially means that their brain interprets words and narratives as moving images (similar to videos); numbers as colors; tastes as images, shapes, colors and sounds; and so on. For example, she can taste or smell a recipe before actually making it, simply by reading it or hearing it read out loud, which has greatly enriched their experiences as a chef, an artist, a storyteller and their current fictional/magical realism novel, The Taste of Names. ​

Almost one quarter of the people in the world are Muslim. But how much do we really understand Muslims here in America? Maysa Kergaye, a Muslim woman who calls Utah home, but has lived in multiple countries and US states, opens up the conversation about what it means to be Muslim, her experiences as a Muslim woman in America , and particularly as a minority in Utah.