English Language Arts Grades 10-12

This link focuses on the reading comprehension strategies, such as the exploration of connotation and denotation of key words when analyzing a quote in a close reading passage.

The Canadian Encyclopedia has an online reference guide for compiling a bibliography. It includes a definition of bibliography, key things to know and suggestions for online citation generators.

This University of Alberta guide provides references to sources that can help students and educators properly cite online sources.

This module provides the What? When? Where? Why? and How? of proper academic citation. See how MLA, APA and Chicago style citations are set out. You can practice identifying the key elements of citations and then try the quiz.

This is a very helpful and detailed guide to attributing Creative Commons licensed materials. You can find examples for including the CC icons, links to media and changes for different mediums.

Created by Rachel Chong, the Indigenous Engagement and Subject Liaison Librarian at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, this fantastic resource answers many questions about using and citing Indigenous information.

An excellent guide from Purdue University about using APA style in your papers and your bibliographies

An excellent guide from Purdue University about how to write and cite materials using the Chicago Manual of Style

An excellent guide about writing a paper and creating a bibliography in MLA style.

OWL at Purdue is one of the most frequently used guides for how to cite information. They offer extensive help for MLA, APA, and Chicago citation styles.

This post helps students to structure quote analysis paragraphs using an anagram to remember each step. It includes an example from Macbeth.

A free citation generator that will create a citation list in APA, MLA, or Chicago styles. **Note: It is always a good idea to check the generated list against the style guide.

A free citation generator that will create a citation list in APA, MLA, or Chicago styles. **Note: It is always a good idea to check the generated list against the style guide.

Cite This For Me has a decent amount of tools that will make citation easier and faster. Though it can only support a moderate number of source types, it makes up for it in the array of citation styles available. While it has the usual download, export, and copy-and-paste tools that other citation generators have, its collaboration features make it unique.

Mendeley Cite is a plug-in for Microsoft Word that lets you cite sources without leaving your document. The plug-in appears in the References tab in Word which allows you to automatically add in-text citations and generate bibliographies. **Note: It is always a good idea to check the generated list against the style guide.

Zotero is a free, open-source research tool that lets you collect research material, organize them, and create references and bibliographies. Zotero has a downloadable desktop app for Mac and Windows. They also have Zotero Connector, a browser extension that allows you to save webpages online and sync it to the desktop app.

A great guide for students to learn about how to create an awesome poster presentation.

Teacher Wynne gives viewers tips on how to give a great oral presentation.

Prezi is tool for creating dynamic presentations. Create your own Prezi by using one of the templates provided.

An add-on extension for the Chrome browser that lets teachers easily capture their screen commands in a video. Videos can be edited and marked up.

This rubric for evaluating websites comes from Galileo Educational Network. Use 11 different elements of a website, including layout, sources and content for evaluation.

This is a collection of news and media literacy resources to help your students (various grade levels) explore the implications of the information they create, share, and consume. They'll develop skills that can help them go beyond fake news to identify the most reliable sources.

In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online.

Google has a collection of helpful lesson plans, videos and presentations for improving your search skills or teaching the skills in a classroom.

In this lesson, for grades 7-12, students apply the “5Ws" to online resources. Students use their skills to authenticate the information in an online article about the artificial sweetener, aspartame.

There are a selection of excellent teaching resources drawing on seven key aspects of digital literacy; each lesson has one or more icons to indicate which digital literacy themes it covers.

This lesson, for grades 10-12, is designed to help students determine the validity of information on the Internet. After reviewing key evaluation techniques, students assess selected online sources for accuracy, authority, advocacy, and objectivity.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between. Students click on different parts to see the clues and then decide how reliable the story is and how to respond. Each scenario is designed to be played in 15 minutes or less.

This classroom resource, based on the book Ready Player One and created by an educator, has discussion ideas, videos and interviews. The resource promotes critical literacy and the importance of understanding how ideas are constructed and shared.

This article has four sections addressing recent findings about how adolescents do research: critical evaluation, modelling and practice, prompting and healthy skepticism.

When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way — and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs can mislead and outright manipulate. Lea Gaslowitz shares some things to look out for.

Here are five questions that you can ask about a news article that you are reading. These tips will help you to find authentic and reliable information.

A site that is dedicated to identifying sources of misinformation (aka 'fake news') about the corona virus

A fact-checking website with an established history of journalistic rigor that partners with Facebook to combat viral fake news. It is focused on US politics

A UK-based fact checking site that is known for it's neutrality.

Lead Stories is a lesser-known website that helps users fact-check information. The website debunks fake news across a variety of beats, including entertainment, tech, politics, and international news.

An excellent bias rating resource -- this site examines sourcing, biased wording, story choices, and political affiliation.

PolitiFact is a non-partisan fact-checking website that focuses on political claims made in the US.

The global edition of PolitiFact reports on the truth of news stories outside of the United States

Snopes started out as a site that mainly dealt with urban legends, myths, common misconceptions, rumors, and conspiracy theories. However, it has expanded to encompass general fact-checking of viral misinformation, including political statements.

TruthOrFiction.com is one of the longest-running fact-checking sites out there. While it initially focused on looking at internet hoaxes and rumors, it has extended its range to include general fake news as well.