1. Views on the News: Media Literacy Empowerment Competencies in the Elementary Grades
Renee Hobbs
Temple University
International Reading Association, Orlando FL
May 9, 2011

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5. 6. Strengthen reading comprehension
7. Build background knowledge
8. Contribute to citizenship skills
9. Suport the development of empathy
10. Bridge between home and school
11. Spark intellectual curiosity
12. Develop critical thinking
13. Support communication and collaboration skills
14. 15. Program Elements
Summer Program for Children
Staff Development Program
Curriculum Development
In-School Mentoring
Parent Outreach
Research and Assessment
16. 17. DESCRIBE: Inside the Frame
IMAGINE: Outside the Frame
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19. ASK QUESTIONS: What do you want to know?
LEARN MORE: Gather new information by reading or listening
REFLECT: Whats important here?
COMPOSE: Share what you have learned
20. Digital and Media LiteracyCompetencies

Engaging: connecting to lived experience and stimulating curiosity and motivation
Locating: finding and selecting information
Comprehending: constructing meaning through active interpretation
Analyzing: identifying author, audience, purpose and point of view and examining the relationship between form and content
Evaluating: making judgments about the value and worth of a particular message
Communicating: composing or creating a message using the processes of brainstorming, composition and revision.
Taking Action: disseminating a message to an authentic audience for the purpose of making a difference in the world outside the classroom

21. Case Studies
Grade 1: Share Emotional Response to Build Empathy
Grade 2: Engage and Reframe to Understand Childrens Interpretation Processes
Grade 3: Create a News Broadcast to Explore the Conventions of Journalism
Grade 4: Debate a Current Events Controversy
Grade 5: Talk Back to the News Media
22. Share Emotional Response
23. Engage and Reframe
24. Create a News Broadcast
25. Stage a Mock Debate
26. Talk Back to the News Media
27. Case Studies
Grade 1: Share Emotional Response to Build Empathy
Grade 2: Engage and Reframe to Understand Childrens Interpretation Processes
Grade 3: Create a News Broadcast to Explore the Conventions of Journalism
Grade 4: Debate a Current Events Controversy
Grade 5: Talk Back to the News Media
28. Digital and Media LiteracyCompetencies

Engaging: connecting to lived experience and stimulating curiosity and motivation
Locating: finding and selecting information
Comprehending: constructing meaning through active interpretation
Analyzing: identifying author, audience, purpose and point of view and examining the relationship between form and content
Evaluating: making judgments about the value and worth of a particular message
Communicating: composing or creating a message using the processes of brainstorming, composition and revision.
Taking Action: disseminating a message to an authentic audience for the purpose of making a difference in the world outside the classroom

29. Issues to Consider

Empathy vs. spectacle in response to disaster news

30. Pros and cons of learning the news formula 31. Access and control issues: who selects content? 32. Influence of parent-community world view 33. Skepticism v cynicism 34. Teacher anxieties about bringing news into the classroom 35. Dissemination of youth voices responding to news and current events