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Grade 8 Worksheet: Saving the Children by Bob Simon

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  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela

This Grade 8 worksheet uses the television transcript Saving the Children by Bob Simon to develop students’ informational reading and media analysis skills. Learners identify central ideas, examine evidence, analyze tone and purpose, and respond critically to real-world issues through scaffolded and differentiated activities, with a complete answer key included.

Additional Info:

  1. Text Type: Television Transcript (Nonfiction / Informational Text)

  2. Difficulty Level: Medium to Difficult

  3. Skill Focus: Analyzing Informational Text in Broadcast Media
    Students analyze a television news transcript by identifying central ideas, evaluating supporting evidence, interpreting tone and purpose, and examining how language choices influence meaning and audience response.

  4. Standards Alignment:

  • CCSS (USA)

    RI.8.1 – Cite textual evidence to support analysis

    RI.8.2 – Determine central ideas and summarize objectively

    RI.8.6 – Analyze author’s purpose and point of view

  • CEFR (B1+/B2): Can understand extended factual texts and identify viewpoints, attitudes, and implied meanings

  • ACARA (Australia)

    ACELY1733 – Interpret and analyze how information is presented in news media

    ACELY1744 – Analyze the ways ideas and viewpoints are developed in texts

  • Cambridge

    Reading for Meaning and Analysis

    Understanding purpose, audience, and language features in nonfiction texts

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