The Media-Savvy Student Teaching Media Literacy Skills, Grades 2–6

For ages 8-12. Designed to help elementary school teachers develop their students' media literacy skills -- the ability to access, analyse, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of formats -- this book offers a series of 20 thematic units that show how to integrate media literacy into their existing curricula. Each unit's lesson or activity includes a statement of the rationale behind it, specific objectives, content goals, materials, procedures, grade-appropriate adaptations, and assessment tools, which are usually student handouts. The Media-Savvy Student is developed around student-centred teaching, inquiry-based education, problem solving in cooperative learning, and alternatives to standardised testing.

Guofang Wan is an associate professor at Bradley University. She teaches and advises undergraduate and graduate students majoring in teacher education, and has published and presented papers on media literacy at national and international conferences. Hong Cheng is an associate professor at Bradley University where he teaches advertising, journalism, and mass communication theory courses. They both live in Peoria, Illinois.