Fact or Fake News? is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Fact or Fake News? provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet transition mandates. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to understand how to spot fake news and alternative facts.
 
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills and transition skills needed for adult independence.
 
Written on a 3rd/4th-grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
 
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Fact or Fake News? include:
 
Vocabulary list
How Did We Get Here
Fake News is Not New
Fake News Can be Dangerous
10 Ways to Tell if it's Fake
Check the Domain
Check the Date
Check the Quotes
Check the Comments
Check the Author
Check Your Blood Pressure
Look at the About Us
Reverse Search the Image
Get a 2nd Opinions
Ask as "Expert"
Fake News and Bias
How Biased is My News
How Do You Convince the Other Guy
 
Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key, and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates.