Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- share personal responses to explore and develop
- understanding of oral, print and other media texts
- discuss and compare the ways similar topics are developed in different forms of oral, print and other media texts
- select preferred forms from a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Clarify and Extend
- identify other perspectives by exploring a variety of ideas, opinions, responses and oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Junk Food Jungle
- Sheroes and Heroes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- TV Stereotypes
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques
- Newspaper Ads
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Media Minute Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Avatars and Body Image
- Understanding the Internet: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet: Build Understanding
Educational Game
Parent/Teacher Tip Sheets
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
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
- explain how the organizational structure of oral, print and other media texts can assist in constructing and confirming meaning
Respond to Texts
- experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- identify and discuss favourite authors, topics and kinds of oral, print and other media texts
- discuss a variety of oral, print or other media texts by the same author, illustrator, storyteller or filmmaker
- make general evaluative statements about oral, print and other media texts
- connect the thoughts and actions of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to personal and classroom experiences
- identify the main events in oral, print and other media texts; explain their causes, and describe how they influence subsequent events
- compare similar oral, print and other media texts and express preferences, using evidence from personal experiences and the texts
- support own interpretations of oral, print and other media texts, using evidence from personal experiences and the texts
- explain how language and visuals work together to communicate meaning and enhance effect
Understand Forms and Techniques
- describe and compare the main characteristics of a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- identify how specific techniques are used to affect viewers’ perceptions in media texts
- recognize how words and word combinations, such as word play, repetition and rhyme, influence or convey meaning
Lessons
- The Constructed World of TV Families
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Media Kids
- Reporter for a Day
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques
- Teaching TV - Film Production: Who Does What?
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Pay for Play
- Understanding the Internet: Using the Internet
- Understanding the Internet: Pathways and Addresses
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Educational Game
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Share and Review
- communicate ideas and information in a variety of oral, print and other media texts, such as short reports, talks and posters
Lessons
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Prejudice and Body Image
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick!
- Reporter for a Day
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Media Minute Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Understanding the Internet: Build Understanding
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
- Avatars and Body Image
Educational Games
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- describe similarities and differences between personal experiences and the experiences of people or characters from various cultures portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- appreciate that responses to some oral, print or other media texts may be different
Lessons
- Introducing TV Families
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Sheroes and Heroes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Avatars and Body Image
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity