Comparing Media/Media Literacy Vocab

Front

Study or examine something carefully to discover its key features or meaning; to break down.

Back

analyze

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Front

The coach showed his _______ when he only picked tall boys for the basketball team.

Back

bias

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Front

In argument writing, the writer’s position on an issue is the ________.

Back

claim

Front

We started to read the article before realizing it was just ______________, designed to get us onto the website.

Back

clickbait

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

Front

People read articles that confirm their beliefs due to _______________.

Back

confirmation bias

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Front

Essential element of argument writing that anticipates opposing viewpoints and provides ______________ to disprove them.

Back

counterargument

Front

Section of a newspaper/broadcast presenting opinions.

Back

editorial

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

Front

Facts that prove or disprove something.

Back

evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

Front

False info; fiction. The photo of a yellow squash flattening a car was pure _______________.

Back

fabrication

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3D

Front

A _________ about my great-grandfather is that he was born in 1922.

Back

fact

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6