Style Secrets Slides
A high-contrast presentation designed for 6th-grade students to learn the fundamentals of AP news style and the importance of accuracy in journalism. It includes rules for numbers, dates, and times, along with a practice editing slide.
Newsroom Style Manual
A concise, single-page reference sheet for 6th-grade students outlining fundamental AP style rules for journalism, including guidelines for numbers, dates, times, titles, and names. It also features a quick fact-checking checklist.
Polish Protocol Worksheet
An editing worksheet for 6th-grade students to practice house style and fact-checking. It includes a news brief for style correction, a comparative fact-checking activity, and a reflection prompt on journalistic integrity.
Polish Protocol Key
A teacher's answer key for the Polish Protocol Worksheet, providing corrected text for the style hunt activity, identified factual errors for the fact-checking challenge, and a scoring guide for student reflections.