News
- CBC Kids News Hot Topics
- PBS Learning Media News stories about 15 minutes in length
- cnn10.com The big stories of the day, explained in 10 minutes
- https://teachingkidsnews.com/ Readable, teachable news since 2010
- Dogo News some parts free/workbooks need to be purchased
DISCUSSING CHALLENGING NEWS STORIES WITH KIDS 
Kids are surrounded by news that is often scary-sounding. They see headlines, overhear snippets on the radio and TV and hear about news events from other kids.
Very often articles are scary for kids because news produced for adults typically leaves out information that may be reassuring because it is “understood.”
Adults tend to already know that information so it’s often not included in the news article. Kids, however, need to be reassured…. article