Ad Break: Read the Pitch

Dani and Ravi have thirty seconds to sell the school book swap, and they learn how ads work along the way. Students flip ad-word cards, read short passages with read-aloud on every passage and answer, find an ad's purpose and main idea, sort ads by the trick they use (everyone's doing it, tug at your feelings, hurry up), use context clues, spot a paid partnership and a prize-pop-up scam, pick a respectful reply to a friend, and finish by sorting checkable claims from hype. Built for speech-language and media-literacy practice in grades 6 to 8. Every product and creator is invented.

• Six ad-word flashcards and four short story passages with read-aloud
• A drag-and-drop sort of persuasion tricks
• Questions on paid posts, prize scams, respectful replies and fact versus hype

• Identify the purpose and main idea of an ad and a story
• Name persuasion techniques used in ads
• Use context clues to work out a word's meaning
• Tell checkable claims from hype and respond safely to online offers