Lesson 2: Introducing & Modeling Lateral Reading

Initial Publication Date: January 21, 2025
How should we research a digital source's credibility? This lesson introduces the strategy of lateral reading, or opening new tabs to research a source's credibility outside the site itself. The teacher models lateral reading and then students have a chance to practice lateral reading and discuss what they learn.

Lesson Plan

The Slide Deck link will direct you to a pop-up that prompts you to create your own, editable copy of the slide deck. Teacher notes and details on the lesson plan are included in the notes section of each slide.

The Guiding Questions link will also direct you to a pop-up that prompts you to create your own, editable copy of the document. Before giving to students, fill in the names of the sources/topics you select in the highlighted sections.

Slide Deck

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18yDbETvPRJv-lpgOhFLL6UiSyLsSVqGPkUIKZ06zHzQ/copy

Guiding Questions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WHBmqqsBHZqypZj0CVImskseuHtAhnjSsaYsajN9KP0/copy

Lateral Reading Sources Mapped to MEL Topics

There are a variety of articles in this document that are mapped to Model-Evidence Link diagram activities. For each topic, three sources are provided.

LR Sources

Project Support

The Lateral Reading-Model-Evidence Link Diagrams project is supported in part by the NSF under Grant Nos. DRL-2201012, DRL-2346657, DRL-2201015, DRL-2201016, DRL-2201017, and DRL-2201018. Previous support came from Grant Nos. DRL-2201013, DRL-2027376, DRL-1721041, and DRL-1316057. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the NSF's views.