Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- express or represent ideas and feelings resulting from activities or experiences with oral, print and other media texts
- use a variety of forms of oral, print and other media texts to organize and give meaning to experiences, ideas and information
- explain why particular oral, print or other media texts are personal favourites
Clarify and Extend
- connect own ideas and experiences with those shared by others
- record ideas and information in ways that make sense
- find more information about new ideas and topics
Lessons
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Co-Co’s AdverSmarts
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Once Upon a Time
- Internet Time Capsule
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
Teacher/Parent Guides
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
- connect personal experiences and knowledge of words, sentences and story patterns from previous reading experiences to construct and confirm meaning
Respond to Texts
- engage in a variety of shared and independent listening, reading, and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of genres, such as legends, video programs, puppet plays, songs, riddles and informational texts
- identify favourite kinds of oral, print and other media texts
- model own oral, print and other media texts on familiar forms
- respond to mood established in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- connect situations portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to personal and classroom experiences
- retell the events portrayed in oral, print and other media texts in sequence
- suggest alternative endings for oral, print and other media texts
- discuss, represent or write about interesting or important aspects of oral, print and other media texts
- express thoughts or feelings related to the events and characters in oral, print and other media texts
- identify words in oral, print and other media texts that create clear pictures or impressions of sounds and sights
Understand Forms and Techniques
- recognize that ideas and information can be expressed in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- identify and explain the use of various communication technologies
- identify main characters, places and events in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- identify how pictures, illustrations and special fonts relate to and enhance print and other media texts
Create Original Text
- use own and respond to others’ ideas to create oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Introducing TV Families
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Co-Co’s AdverSmarts
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
- Newspaper Ads
- Internet Time Capsule
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Rules of the Game
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Plan and Focus
- related personal knowledge to ideas and information in oral, print and other media texts
- ask questions to determine the main idea of oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
- Newspaper Ads
- Co-Co’s AdverSmarts
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
- Rules of the Game
- Healthy Food Web
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Enhance and Improve
- choose words, language patterns, illustrations or sounds to create a variety of effects in oral, print and other media texts
Generate and Focus
- generate and contribute ideas on particular topics for oral, written, and visual texts
- use a variety of forms [such as simple reports, illustrations, role-plays of characters and situations, string games…] for particular audiences and purposes
- order ideas to create a beginning, middle, and end in own oral, written, and visual texts
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Packaging Tricks
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Co-Co’s AdverSmarts
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- discuss the experiences and traditions of various communities portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- discuss similarities and differences in settings, characters and events in oral, print and other media texts from various communities
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Once Upon a Time
- TV Stereotypes
- Representing Ourselves Online
Teacher/Parent Guides