A free single-session lesson on the one technique professional fact-checkers use — and the easiest way to see whether this line suits your student.

A slick, professional site claims its product is backed by leading researchers. Reading further down that page cannot tell you whether that is true; only leaving it can.

When researchers compared professional fact-checkers, historians and undergraduates evaluating the same unfamiliar websites, the fact-checkers were fastest and most accurate. Not because they knew more — because they left the page almost immediately and checked it from the outside.

Most adults read vertically too. Run it alongside your student.

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Written by a school media specialist with an M.S. in Instructional Technology. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.