Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Literacy Foundations - English Language Arts - Level 3

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Level 3, Literacy Foundations, English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

It is expected that students will:

Reading and Viewing

Specific Expectations

view and demonstrate an understanding of the meaning conveyed by a variety of visual texts (e.g., illustrations, diagrams, posters, broadcast media, films, videos)
during reading and viewing, construct meaning from texts by
- describing emerging ideas and points of view
- using syntactic and context cues to guide and inform their understanding (e.g., use knowledge of grammar, word order, and sentence structure to guide and inform their understanding of the text)
- using text features to locate information and support comprehension (e.g., diagrams, headings, bold and italicized words, table of contents)
- recognizing literary elements (e.g., plot, conflict, character, setting)
- identifying genre and form (e.g., folk tales, legends, autobiography, historical fiction, essay, article, documentary, web page, short story, novel, poem)
- distinguishing between literal definition and figurative meaning and identifying idiomatic expressions (e.g., “That was a piece of cake.”)
- making inferences (e.g., about characters’ feelings or story problems)
- drawing conclusions (e.g., make connections between cause and effect)
after reading and viewing, develop their understanding of the meaning conveyed in texts by
rereading or “re-viewing” to gain deeper understanding
paraphrasing the main ideas and points of view
generating and responding to questions
describing their interpretations
discussing their interpretations with others
locating text features (e.g., diagrams, headings, bold and italicized words, diagrams, drawings, chapter titles) that support their interpretation