Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- share personal experiences that are clearly related to oral, print and other media texts
- make observations about activities, experiences and oral, print and other media texts
- express preferences for a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
- Eating Under the Rainbow
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Internet Time Capsule
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Can You Spot the Ad
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
Educational Game
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
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
- use previous experience and knowledge or oral language to make connections to the meaning of oral, print and other media texts
- talk about print or other media texts previously read or viewed
Respond to Texts
- participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as poems, storytelling by elders, pattern books, audio tapes, stories and cartoons
- relate aspects of stories and characters to personal feelings and experiences
- retell interesting or important aspects of oral, print and other media texts
- tell what was liked or disliked about oral, print and other media texts
- identify how words can imitate sounds and create special effects
- experiment with repetitions, rhyme and rhythm to create effects in own oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques
- distinguish differences in the ways various oral, print and other media texts are organized
- identify various forms of media texts
- tell what characters do or what happens to them in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- create original texts [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories…] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and technique
Create Original Text
- generate and contribute ideas for individual or group oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
- Eating Under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Can You Spot the Ad
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
Educational Game
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Share and Review
- share ideas and information from oral, print and other media texts with familiar audiences
Lessons
- Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Internet Time Capsule
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Representing Ourselves Online
Educational Game
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Enhance and Improve
- use words and pictures to add sensory detail in oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Eating Under the Rainbow
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Healthy Food Web
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- share personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, print and other media texts
- talk about other times, places and people after exploring oral, print and other media texts from various communities
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Internet Time Capsule
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
Teacher/Parent Guides