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:
A text is anything, digital or non-digital, that has meaning for the individual or group who creates or engages with it.
The purpose of a text can be to
- inform
- provide enjoyment
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Healthy Food Web
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks
- 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:
Writing processes used to organize and share messages include
- planning
- drafting
- revising
- editing
- sharing
Written messages can be created using a variety of digital or non-digital methods or tools