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Media Analysis and Bias

8th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RI.8.7 | Media Analysis and Bias - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.6 — Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.8 — Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficien

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More 8th Grade reading lessons

• Analyzing Complex Characters
• Theme and Symbolism
• Evaluating Reasoning in Arguments
• Comparing Modern and Historical Texts
• Analyzing Structure of Text
• Author's Use of Evidence
• Conflicting Viewpoints
• Analyzing Primary Sources

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