Reading and Viewing |
Purposes (Reading and Viewing) - view and demonstrate comprehension of visual texts (e.g., signs, cartoons, illustrations, newspapers, diagrams, posters, videos, advertising)
| Lessons Sheroes and Heroes Villains, Heroes and Heroines Violence in Sports Anatomy of Cool Media Kids Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Television Techniques Thinking About Television and Movies How to Analyze the News Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) |
Strategies (Reading and Viewing) - 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
- 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? Anatomy of Cool 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 The Constructed World of TV Families Media Kids Violence in Sports You've Gotta Have a Gimmick! Advertising and Nutrition: Looks Good Enough to Eat What's in a Word? Images of Learning: Elementary Comic Book Characters Stereotyping and Bias Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) Educational Game Cybersense & Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
Thinking (Reading and Viewing) - respond to selections they read or view, by:
- expressing an opinion with supporting evidence
- explaining connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world)
- identifying personally meaningful selections, passages, and images
- read and view to improve and extend thinking, by:
- developing explanations
- distinguishing between fact and opinion
- analysing texts to consider alternatives
- drawing conclusions
- comparing various viewpoints
- summarizing and synthesizing
| Lessons Creating a Marketing Frenzy Freedom to Smoke Image Gap Mirror Image Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelop es, Addresses Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights Anatomy of Cool Put Downs Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) Educational Game Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
Features - 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, pull-quotes)
- literary elements (e.g., character, setting, problem, plot, climax, conflict, theme, conclusion, resolution)
- 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
| Lessons Advertising All Around Us Elections and the Media How to Analyze the News News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum Newspaper Ads Comparing Real Families to TV Families Taking Charge of TV Violence Anatomy of Cool Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) |
Writing and Representing |
Strategies (Writing and Representing) - select and use strategies before writing and representing, including
- setting a purpose
- identifying an audience, genre, and form
- analysing examples of successful writing and representing in different forms and genres to identify key criteria
- 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 criteria
- analysing models of literature
- accessing multiple sources of information
- consulting reference materials
- considering and applying feedback to revise ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency
- ongoing revising and editing
| Lessons Reporter for a Day How to Analyze the News The Broadcast Project Taking Charge of TV Violence Create a Youth Consumer Magazine True Story What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Teacher Guides News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum |
