Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 4

Reading and Writing

Purposes (Reading and Viewing)

• view and demonstrate comprehension of visual texts (e.g., cartoons, illustrations, diagrams, posters, photographs, advertising)

Lessons

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Junk Food Jungle

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

TV Stereotypes

Thinking About Television and Movies

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

The Constructed World of TV Families

Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller

Teaching TV: Learning With Television

How to Analyze the News

Educational Games

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

• respond to selections they read or view, by
  • expressing an opinion with supporting evidence
  • explaining connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)
  • discussing and giving reasons for their choice of favourite texts
• read and view to improve and extend thinking, by
  • predicting and explaining
  • visualizing
  • distinguishing between fact and opinion
  • analysing texts to consider alternatives
  • drawing conclusions
  • recognizing alternative viewpoints
  • summarizing and synthesizing

"He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports 

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 1: Messages About Drinking

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 3: Understanding Brands

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages

Looking at Newspapers: Introduction

Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

• explain how structures and features of text work to develop meaning, including
  • form, function, and genre of text (e.g., brochure about smoking to inform students; genre is persuasive)
  • ‘text features’ (e.g., copyright, table of contents, headings, index, glossary, diagrams, sidebars)
  • literary elements (e.g., character, setting, problem, plot, climax, conflict, theme, conclusion)
  • non-fiction elements (e.g., topic sentence, development of ideas with supporting details, central idea)
  • literary devices (e.g., imagery, sensory detail, simile, metaphor)
  • idiomatic expressions

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Looking at Newspapers: Introduction

Newspaper Ads 

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

Strategies

• select and use strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including
  • predicting
  • making connections
  • visualizing
  • asking and answering questions
  • making inferences and drawing conclusions
  • using ‘text features’
  • self-monitoring and self-correcting
  • figuring out unknown words
  • reading selectively
  • determining the importance of ideas/events
  • visually representing texts
  • summarizing and synthesizing
• select and use strategies after reading and viewing to confirm and extend meaning, including
  • self-monitoring and self-correcting
  • generating and responding to questions
  • making inferences and drawing conclusions
  • reflecting and responding
  • visualizing
  • using ‘text features’ to locate information
  • using graphic organizers to record information
  • summarizing and synthesizing

Lessons

Sheroes and Heroes

Villains, Heroes and Heroines

Do You Believe This Camel?

Prejudice and Body Image

Anatomy of Cool

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising:  Interpreting Media Messages

"He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports

Media Kids

Violence in Sports

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

Writing and Representing

Strategies

• select and use strategies before writing and representing, including
  • setting a purpose
  • identifying an audience
  • selecting a genre and form from samples provided
  • developing class-generated criteria based on analysis of the form of writing or representing
  • generating, selecting, developing, and organizing ideas from personal interest, prompts, models of good literature, and/or graphics
• select and use strategies during writing and representing to express and refine thoughts, including
  • referring to class-generated criteri
  • combining multiple sources of information
  • consulting reference material
  • considering and applying feedback from conferences to revise ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency
  • ongoing revising and editing  

Lessons

Reporter for a Day

Do You Believe This Camel?

How to Analyze the News

Teaching Television: Packaging Tricks

Junk Food Jungle

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising:  Interpreting Media Messages

"He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

Self and Society (Personal Awareness)

Building Community

• demonstrate an awareness of the diverse languages, ideas, opinions, cultures, and contributions of their peers

This outcome is supported through class discussion and activities in those lessons listed above.