Now includes DIGITAL formats for DISTANCE LEARNING! 1. Digital Option - Editable Google Slides Document 2. Digital Option - PowerPoint with text boxes 3. Printable Format *This current event form focuses on " Social Studies - Any Topic." **This product includes a BONUS Summarizing Guide!* USE THIS CURRENT EVENT ALL YEAR! Need some help with Social Studies? Need an activity to go with that Weekly Reader? Want to integrate reading and social studies? You are sure to love using social studies current events in your classroom! Students need to know what is going on in the world around them. Summarizing and making personal connections are important reading skills that students will use while completing their current event. Students will select an article (website, magazine, newspaper, etc.) and complete the current event form. They will need to read their article carefully (hopefully more than once), determine important key vocabulary words, summarize in their own words, decide on a question they still have, and even try to make personal connections. {There is a tips page included to get you started and help you show your students where they can find great articles.} Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. **Have you checked out my best selling scavenger hunts yet?** Science Scavenger Hunts Planets Scientific Method Water Cycle Animal Groups Moon Phases Social Studies Scavenger Hunts Abraham Lincoln George Washington Colonial America Holidays Halloween Science Chinese New Year Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day