Informational Literacy

After reading the text, choose which statement will help you as a student make sure you overcome any academic pitfalls in the education system and be successful in life?

• I can be a voracious reader. I will be an all consuming force of nature reading as much literary and informational texts as possible! I will be the captain of my life. Knowledge will be the blade I use to cut through ignorance and doubt that tries to hold me back. Knowledge will light my way through the darkness. I will be the King or Queen of my destiny. Nothing will stand in my way. If they do, they will bow to my will! I am ferocious. Here me Roar!

• Ima Watch Netflix! Ima Watch Youtube! Ima consume all the mindless social media and become a puppet of the man never learning to think deeply and complexly. I can live my life just fine letting other people tell me what to do, how much money I'm allowed to have and where I get to live. I don't need to think. I got Snapchat and wikipedia. I don't need knowledge. Everyone can be a genius if they got the internet.

• Yo man, I got them cinnamon pop tarts and dorito tacos. I don't need nothin' else. Maybe some mountain dew. Mountain Dew's lit.

• "Renaissance Learning’s 2016 report, “What Kids Are Reading,” shows high school seniors are reading at a 6th grade level, and only 9% of students in high school read texts above a middle school complexity level of 8, leaving students ill-prepared for college level reading at about 13. Both Renaissance Learning and Common Core standards support nonfiction texts in the classroom, because they tend to have a higher reading level of around 9 to 11 — though Renaissance Learning says there shouldn’t be a trade-off with comprehension, even if the complexity is increasing."

Information Literacy refers to:
a. the ability to find, evaluate and make good use of information.
b. the attitudes necessary to use information ethically.
c. a necessary skill for lifelong and self-directed learning.

• a + c

• a + b

• b + c

• a + b + c

You decide to cut and paste some information from a website into your school report. What is this called?

• Copyright vindication

• Plagiarism

• Being smart

includes evidence to support ideas; appears in many forms

• sonnet

• film

• informational

• short story

You..................check fake news

• Should

• Shouldn't

passages that explain or inform.

• Compare and Contrast

• Denotation

• Literary Texts

• Informational Texts

Younger pupils need to expand their repertoire and build literacy skills with informational/factual text.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In order to avoid plagiarism, you should always _____.

• give credit to the person who created the material you are using

• change a few words so it isn't technically word-for-word

• hope nobody checks to find out it isn't your own original work

To cite means 

• to do research

• to show where you found the information

• to point out something

• to start a riot

Steps you can take to determine if a source is reliable will include

• check currency of the information.

• determining the author of the website and their experience.

• ensure the accuracy of the information

• all of the above.