Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson

Lesson Plan

Level: Grades 1 to 6

Author: This lesson, by Elizabeth Verrall, has been adapted with permission from the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario (FWTAO) Curriculum Insert 1994 Vol. 12 No. 5. Toronto, Ontario, May/June 1993.

Students will:

• understand that media products can tell a story
• recognize that characters, mood, setting and plot are part of a media story
• tell or re-tell a story using different media
• appreciate that there are different ways to tell the same story
• identify television stories
• compare/contrast TV stories with other stories
• construct a storyboard

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