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Let's Discuss Current Events

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Investigate articles from the daily news and share opinions with classmates. Using current events, learners view a news program without sound and predict what news is being discussed by analyzing the visuals. Then they read news articles and discuss the Five W's in groups. Groups present to the class what they learned from their article. Great for social studies, language arts, intermediate or advanced ELD, or any foreign language course. 

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main ideas, central ideas, preparing for discussions, discussion skills, compare and contrast

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current events lesson, reading newspaper, social discussions, compare and contrast, Informational Text, main idea, speech, discussion preparation, multimedia research, ccss.ela-literacy.sl.11-12.1, ri.2.2, sl.4.1, sl.2.1, l.7.1., english language arts
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Grade
4th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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1 hr
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