Media Literacy and Source Comparison Worksheet
📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 20 minutes 10 problems
Media Literacy and Source Comparison Worksheet
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Checking messages, sources, and evidence is called media __.
2. Which is the strongest source habit?
3. Match the clue to the term: claim
Match with:
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4. Match the clue to the term: evidence
Match with:
Answer:
5. Which statement is most accurate?
6. Students should check the date, author, and __ of a source.
7. Why is framing important when reading about public issues?
8. Which source comparison question is strongest?
9. A headline is not enough to explain a whole __.
10. Stronger readers slow down before they __ a public claim.
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. literacy
2. Compare claim and evidence across sources
3. what a source wants you to believe
4. information that supports a claim
5. A source can have a perspective and still be useful if the evidence is strong.
6. purpose
7. because the angle of a story can shape what people notice and how they react
8. What evidence does each source include or leave out?
9. issue
10. repeat