CNN 10 (CNN Student News) Current Events, 17 Different Common Core Worksheets

Keep your students focused and engaged while watching CNN 10 or any other news program! These 17 different current event response sheets will help your students engage with the news like never before as they grow in their ability to describe, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create on a daily basis. The 17 response sheets offer a wide variety of choice and are aligned with Common Core Standards. They strengthen ELA and social studies skills through cross-curricular activities and promote higher-level thinking which leads to amazing, thoughtful class discussions.

These skills are covered:

· Mapping locations

· Creating questions with answers for a partner or the class

· Identifying facts and opinions

· Drawing pictures which show cause and effect

· Identifying problems and identifying or creating solutions

· Understanding a news story and stating how it could affect yourself or others

· The 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, why

· Identifying and understanding different points of view

· Making predictions

· Identifying and using new or challenging vocabulary words

· Writing a summary with a main idea, supporting details, and conclusion

· Identifying ways to personally make a difference

· Drawing a political cartoon

· Creating a Haiku poem related to the news

· Creating a PSA (public service announcement) to inform or persuade others

· Connecting news stories to other news stories or topics studied in class

· Classifying a week of news stories as most important, most controversial, most relatable, and most inspiring

My students work on a different response sheet each day of the week. The class discussions afterwards are quite impressive as they share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas with others. I especially love the thoughtful questions they come up with for each other. It really helps them relate the news to their own lives and other events in history that we’ve learned about in class.

What's included:

• 17 printable current event response sheets (PDF) (16 half sheets & 1 full sheet)
• Digital interactive EASEL version with answer boxes (EASEL)

What people are saying about this product:

• “We have been using this resource daily for current events. My kids love being able to choose the activity and they are learning so much listening to CNN 10 every day!”
• “My students love CNN 10. This resource is great for keeping them accountable as we watch it. It's also great notes for when we discuss is afterward.”
• “I love the language used in this resource: cause and effect, problem and solution, etc.!”
• “Great to use to initiate conversation as well as for remediation for ELA”
• “I loved the variety of activities and it was easily used with a variety of news sources.”
• “I really love how this product can help me target and support certain skills that we are working on while helping to promote global awareness in my classroom!”
• “Well done. I can't wait to use this. I love the variety of activities. Since the activities are on half sheets, it's perfect for interactive notebooks.”
• “My students love this. Of course they love some templates better than others but I highly recommend this resource to anyone who does quick current events assignments.”

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