Year 8 · English · Reading
Critical reading and bias
Compare how texts represent people and ideas, notice whose voices are included or left out, recognise bias and evaluate digital sources.
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- 3D lesson: Critical reading and bias — Strip the spin from biased headlines, compare how captions and texts represent the same scene, audit whose voices are heard and use SIFT to catch sponsored posts, fakes and disinformation.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 3 (Years 7–8), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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More Year 8 English topics
Vocabulary and word origins · Comprehension: inference, theme and conclusions · Text forms, structures and features · Spelling patterns · Sentences and grammar · Punctuation for effect · Writing to entertain · Writing to inform and explain · Writing to persuade