The facts and opinions of sports — media literacy takes the field!

Dec 20, 2024

Help your young readers learn the difference between facts and opinions through sports.

Facts and opinions — what’s the difference? The professional news media makes the separation clear. Help your young readers learn the difference through sports. Here’s a media literacy Kid Scoop page‚ take a look!

Media Literacy is a subject that schools now include in the curriculum. You’ll find sponsors eager to fund Kid Scoop pages devoted to helping young learners become more discerning consumers, debaters, and eventual voters. Contact sports retailers, foundations, and education-minded corporations—these often have a non-profit unit devoted to funding education projects.

Here are the skills this page attacks:

  • Identify facts and opinions in sports
  • Evaluate quotes to differentiate feelings from facts
  • Use a newspaper photo to develop facts and opinions of your own
  • Gauge your emotional reaction
  • Evaluate headlines or main ideas for persuasion
  • Look closely at sources of internet information
  • Search the news for facts and opinions, plus graph the findings

Need assistance in locating sources of new revenue to fund the valued Kid Scoop content? Contact our specialist who has decades of experience on both the editorial and advertising sides of media, Dan “Media Man” Dalton at 909-793-9890 or patiodan@kidscoop.com.