Overall Expectations:
Text Forms and Structures: Identifying and applying text forms and structures improves understanding of content, literary style, and our rich language traditions.
Specific Expectations:
- Messages can be shared for different reasons (purposes), including to learn, have fun, and stay safe.
- Messages can depict ideas and information that are imaginary (fiction) or real (non-fiction).
- Messages can be shared digitally or non-digitally through
- reading
- writing
- listening
- speaking
- viewing
- representing
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Overall Expectations:
Writing: Ideas and information can be articulated accurately and imaginatively through the use of writing processes and an understanding of the author’s craft.
Specific Expectations:
Digital or non-digital methods or tools used to create written messages include printing and keyboarding.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?