I’m a freelance journalist who is also involved in children’s literacy.
A few years ago, I brought those two aspects of my life together to co-create: TeachingKidsNews.com (TKN).
(Here’s the story of how TKN got started: an interested parent + an enthusiastic teacher.)
TKN provides daily, kid-friendly news. For each article we add teaching questions taken from the school curriculum.
So, kids can find out what’s happening in the “real” news–and teachers/homeschool parents can cover off the curriculum.
Recently, TVOParents talked to the founders of TKN about media literacy and why it’s so important for kids to develop critical media literacy skills.
Here is TVO’s wonderful piece on TKN and media literacy.
