Workshop: test your own source
Ākonga bring a media text they actually encountered and separate what it states from what it implies.
- Reading Workshop move: Own-source analysis
- Evidence it produces: A separated list of claim versus implication, from a real source
Before you plan from this: the lesson body below is currently near-identical to the other route's. This panel describes the intended difference, which is not authored yet — so choose either route on topic and year band, not on this pitch. Both routes are kept and will be differentiated; neither is being retired.
Lesson 7: Fact vs Opinion & Identifying Author Bias in Media Texts
Building confident, active readers through Te Ao Māori perspectives, comprehension strategies, and rich Aotearoa texts.
🎯 Ngā Whāinga Akoranga | Learning Intentions
The difference between objective verifiable facts and subjective opinions/judgments, persuasive language devices, loaded words, emotional tone, and author perspective/bias.
Classify statements as fact or opinion, identify loaded emotive words in news articles, and determine an author's point of view or bias.
🎥 Media Anchor & Pedagogical Scaffold
Fact vs Opinion & Detecting Media Bias
Video: kaiako to select — guidance below.
🎬 Kaiako: Select and embed a video here
Suggested search: "Fact vs Opinion & Detecting Media Bias"
Search YouTube for a short clip (5–10 min) on this topic. Verify it is age-appropriate and plays correctly before embedding. Add data-oembed-verified="true" only after verifying via YouTube oEmbed.
🧠 1. Before Viewing (Activate & Predict)
How can two news articles reporting on the exact same event give readers completely different impressions?
👁️ 2. During Viewing (Watch With a Job)
- Early in the clip: Distinguish facts (proven by data/observation) from opinions (beliefs, values, feelings).
- Midway: Identify loaded words carrying positive or negative emotional connotations (e.g. 'reckless' vs 'bold').
- Later in the clip: Evaluate author perspective: who wrote this, why did they write it, and whose voice is missing?
🗣️ 3. After Viewing & Kaiako Move (Process & Apply)
Kaiako Move: Provide two contrasting short opinion pieces on a local community issue (e.g. building a new skateboard park) for comparison.
Immediate Task: Complete Section 7 of your Reading Journal: Fact vs Opinion Sorting Matrix & Bias Audit Sheet.
⚡ Whakaoho | Do Now: Reading Warm-Up (10 mins)
Review key reading vocabulary, strategy definitions, and context clues for Lesson 7. Connect previous reading reflections to today's text analysis.
📖 Activity 1: Guided Reading & Strategy Practice (25 mins)
Read selected Aotearoa non-fiction, School Journal articles, or pūrākau passages in pairs. Apply active reading strategies, highlight text evidence, and complete graphic organizers.
📝 Activity 2: Year 7 Reading Journal & Reflection Scaffolding (20 mins)
Draft your formal Reading Journal entry for Lesson 7. Use specific text quotes and reading strategy terminology (e.g., schema, context clues, main idea, evidence-based inference, cause/effect, pūrākau metaphor, author bias, text synthesis) to justify your answers.
🏫 Kaiako Planning & Pedagogy Notes
Year 7 Curriculum Alignment: Te Mataiaho English Phase 3 — Reading and Viewing for meaning. Builds core comprehension, critical literacy, and cultural connectedness through Aotearoa literature and pūrākau.