Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences |
Discover and Explore - use personal experiences as a basis for exploring and expressing opinions and understanding review personal collection of favorite oral, print and other media texts and share responses to preferred forms
Clarify and Extend - use prior knowledge and experiences selectively to make sense of new information in a variety of contexts
- explain the importance of linking personal perceptions and ideas to new concepts
- appraise ideas for clarity and ask extending questions
| Lessons Sheroes and Heroes Villains, Heroes and Heroines Media Kids Violence in Sports The Anatomy of Cool Thinking About Television and Movies Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Learning With Television Reporter for a Day |
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts |
Use Strategies and Cues - describe and build upon connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a variety of texts
- use a variety of comprehension strategies
- use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning
Respond to Texts - experience texts from a variety of genres and cultural traditions; explain preferences for particular types of a variety of texts
- compare the challenges and situations encountered in daily life with those experiences by people in other times, places, and cultures as portrayed in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
- identify descriptive and figurative language in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques - understand and use a variety of forms of texts identify key elements in a variety of texts, and explore their impact
Create Original Text [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories…] to - communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and meanings
| Lessons Advertising All Around Us The Anatomy of Cool Comic Book Characters Creating a Marketing Frenzy Do You Believe This Camel? Elections and the Media Freedom to Smoke Humour on Television Image Gap Junk Food Jungle Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands Looks Good Enough to Eat Newspaper Ads Media Kids Reporter for a Day Packaging Tricks Put Downs Sheroes and Heroes Taking Charge of TV Violence Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Learning With Television Teaching TV: Television Techniques Teaching TV - Film Production: Who Does What? The Constructed World of TV Families The True Story Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Thinking About Television and Movies Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6 TV Stereotypes Villains, Heroes and Heroines Violence in Sports What's in a Word? You've Gotta Have a Gimmick! Educational Games Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the CyberPigs Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) |
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information |
Select and Process - recognize organizational patterns [such as main ideas and supporting details, explanation, comparison and contrast, and effect, sequence…] of oral, print, and other media texts to construct meaning; skim, scan and listen for key words and phrases
| Lessons What's in a Word? Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands "He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports Do You Believe This Camel? Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6 You've Gotta Have a Gimmick! Looks Good Enough to Eat Elections and the Media Thinking About Television and Movies Media Kids The Constructed World of TV Families Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Violence in Sports Advertising All Around Us Reporter for a Day Creating a Marketing Frenzy Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Learning With Television Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) |
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication |
Generate and Focus - focus a topic for oral, written and visual texts by integrating ideas from experiences and a variety of other sources
- choose forms [such as news stories, interviews, reports, diagrams...] appropriate to a variety of audiences and purposes
- use listening, reading and viewing experiences as models for organizing ideas in own oral, written and visual texts
| Lessons What's in a Word? Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages "He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports Do You Believe This Camel? Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6 You've Gotta Have a Gimmick! Looks Good Enough to Eat Elections and the Media Thinking About Television and Movies Create a Youth Consumer Magazine Reporter for a Day Creating a Marketing Frenzy Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Learning With Television |
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community |
Develop and Celebrate Community - draw on oral, print and other media texts to explain personal perspectives on cultural representations
- compare individuals and situations portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to those encountered in real life
| Teaching Units Comparing Real Families to TV Families Female Action Heroes Images of Learning: Elementary Media Kids Violence in Sports What's in a Word? Put Downs The Anatomy of Cool The Constructed World of TV Families Comic Book Characters |