Reading and Viewing |
Purposes (Reading and Viewing) - demonstrate comprehension of visual texts with specialized features and complex ideas (e.g., visual components of media such as magazines, newspapers, web sites, reference books, graphic novels, broadcast media, videos, advertising and promotional materials)
| Lessons Cop Shows Images of Learning: Elementary Comic Book Characters Video Games and Video Violence TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible? Gender and Tobacco Alcohol Myths Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz Young Drinkers Privacy and Internet Life Alcohol Myths News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction Definitions and Comments about the News The Newspaper Front Page Radio News Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
Strategies - select and use various 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 various 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 The Broadcast Project Selling Obesity You Be the Editor Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9 True Story Bias Violence and Video Games Comic Book Characters Stereotyping and Bias Do You Believe This Camel? Gender and Tobacco 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 Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports Alcohol Myths Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising Scientific Detectives Selling Tobacco Television Broadcast Ratings Educational Game Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
Thinking (Reading and Viewing) - respond to selections they read or view, by
- expressing opinions and making judgments supported by reasons, explanations, and 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
- analysing and evaluating ideas and information
- comparing various viewpoints
- summarizing and synthesizing to create new ideas
| Lessons Creating a Marketing Frenzy Freedom to Smoke Gender and Tobacco Image Gap Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers Alcohol Myths Violence and Video Games Mirror Image Perceptions of Youth and Crime Taking Charge of TV Violence The Anatomy of Cool The Girl in the Mirror The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz Thinking Like a
Citizen News Journalism: Lesson One The Broadcast Project Perceptions of Youth and Crime CyberSense and Nonsense Introduction Video Games Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
Features (Reading and Viewing) - 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, hyperlink, pull-quotes
- literary elements (e.g., characterization, mood, viewpoint, foreshadowing, conflict, protagonist, antagonist, theme)
- non-fiction elements (e.g., topic sentence, development of ideas with supporting details, central idea)
- literary devices (e.g., imagery, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, symbolism, personification)
- idiomatic expressions
| Lessons Do You Believe This Camel?
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising 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 Looks Good Enough to Eat Scientific Detectives Selling Tobacco Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising The True Story Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9 Tobacco Labels TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible? Elections and the Media How to Analyze the News News Journalism: Lesson Three Summative Activities : Lesson Five News Journalism: Lesson Two Taking Charge of TV Violence Violence Video Games Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
Writing and Representing |
Strategies (Writing and Representing) - select and use various 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
- generating, selecting, developing, and organizing ideas from personal interest, prompts, texts, and/or research
- select and use various 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 from conferences to revise ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency
- ongoing revising and editing
| Lessons Create a Youth Consumer Magazine You Be the Editor Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising Video Production of a Newscast Writing a Newspaper Article The Broadcast Project News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction Definitions and Comments about the News The Newspaper Front Page Radio News Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
