listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- select and explain preferences for particular forms of oral, print and other media texts
- use own experiences as a basis for exploring and expressing opinions and understanding
Clarify and Extend
- use talk, notes, personal writing and representing to explore relationships among own ideas and experiences, those of others and those encountered in oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Sheroes and Heroes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Media Kids
- Violence in Sports
- The Anatomy of Cool
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television
- Reporter for a Day
- Avatars and Body Image
- Game Time
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
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
- describe ways that personal experiences and prior knowledge contribute to understanding new ideas and information
Respond to Texts
- experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- express points of view about oral, print and other media texts
- compare characters and situations portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to those encountered in the classroom and community
- describe characters’ qualities based on what they say and do and how they are described in oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques
- identify and discuss similarities and differences among a variety of forms of oral, print and other media texts
- identify the main characteristics of familiar media and media texts
- identify sections or elements in print or other media texts, such as shots in films or sections in magazines
Create Original Text
- use texts from listening, reading and viewing experiences as models for producing own oral, print and other texts
- experiment with modeled forms of oral, print and other media texts to suit particular audiences and purposes
- use structures encountered in texts to organize and ideas in own oral, print and other media texts
- use own experience as a starting point and source of information for fictional oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- What’s in a Word?
- Images of Learning
- The Constructed World of TV Families
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick!
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Broadcast Project
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Female Action Heroes
- 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
- Avatars and Body Image
- Understanding the Internet: Using the Internet
- Understanding the Internet: Pathways and Addresses
- Pay for Play
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Educational Games
listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Plan and Focus
- summarize important ideas in oral, print and other media texts and express opinions about them
Lessons
- What’s in a Word?
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick!
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Elections and the Media
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Reporter for a Day
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television
- 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
- Avatars and Body Image
listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Enhance and Improve
- develop criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Reporter for a Day
- The Broadcast Project
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick!
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Pay for Play
listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- discuss personal understanding of the lives of people or characters in various communities, cultural traditions, places and times portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- compare own and others’ responses to ideas and experiences related to oral, print and other media texts
- identify and discuss how qualities such as courage, ambition and loyalty, are portrayed in oral, print and other media texts from diverse cultures and communities
- determine and use language appropriate to the context of specific situations
Lessons
Comparing Real Families to TV Families