Speaking and Listening |
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Overall Expectations GCO 2: Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically. GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose. Specific Expectations Students will: contribute to and respond constructively in conversation, small group and whole group discussion detect examples of prejudice, stereotyping or bias in oral language, recognize their negative effect on individuals and cultures and attempt to use bias-free language
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MediaSmarts Resources Lessons Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking The Constructed World of Television Families The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible? Video Production of a Newscast Interactive Resources |
Reading and Viewing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual text. GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies. GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre. Specific Expectations Students will: use and integrate the various cueing systems and a variety of strategies with increasing independence to construct meaning reflect on and discuss their own processes and strategies in reading and viewing use a range of reference texts and a data base or electronic search to facilitate the selection process recognize that facts can be presented to suit an author’s purpose and point of view consider information from alternative perspectives identify the conventions and structure of a variety of print and media texts and genres make connections with the purpose of each text or genre respond critically to texts apply a growing range of strategies to analyze and evaluate a text demonstrate growing awareness that all texts reflect a purpose and a perspective compare alternate points of view analyze the impact of language used in texts examine how responses to texts can affect social change
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MediaSmarts Resources Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway? Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What? The Constructed World of Television Families The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible? Interactive Resources CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
Writing and Representing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 8: Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.
GCO 9: Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes. Specific Expectations Students will: explore ways to develop ideas reflect on themselves as text creators create written and media texts using an increasing variety of forms assess the influence that audience and purpose have during the creation of texts
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MediaSmarts Resources “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway? Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure The Constructed World of Television Families The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6 Video Production of a Newscast Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports |
