Published by KCTS Television, USA.
This is a website for teaching media awareness. It contains great information and activities about the way advertising tricks affect us, the used music in ads, and tips on ensuring that you know exactly what you are buying.
Activities include quizzes, putting together your own cereal box. Students can read, question and learn about advertising tricks, listen to jingles and music in certain ads to work out what exactly is in the shopping bag. It is bright, teacher and child friendly, and interactive. Suitable for upper primary and lower secondary.
Published by Media Smart, UK
This is a media literacy program focusing on advertising. It provides a variety of activities relating to British television. This wonderful site has a list of facts about children’s viewing, a quiz, some tips for viewing and a great game called Brand Me which asks the students to create a character, dress the character and create a brand which will be advertised. The students can then watch the finished product. Suitable for lower, middle and upper primary.
Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips published by Web Wombat Pty Ltd, Australia.
This is a wonderful resource for students to study reporting around the world. Teachers will be able to direct students to any region of the world to compare ways that our news is reported. Suitable for middle primary, upper primary and secondary.
Navigate the Newspaper published by Ministry of Education, Wellington, NZ.
This is an introduction to some key aspects of news writing and newspaper layout. Students use the online resources to guide their analysis of a daily newspaper and are relevant for everyday reporting. Suitable for middle primary, upper primary and lower secondary.