How to address violence in the news with your students.
Teacher Review for Newsela
This is a great resource, but the opinion pieces should always have both sides of the issues so that the students can judge for themselves. We are nurturing independent thinkers, so they should not be "fed" only the opinions that liberal newsela wants.
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