Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- share personal experiences that are clearly related to oral, print and other media texts
- talk about favorite oral, print and other media texts
Clarify and Extend
- connect related ideas and information
- express interest in new ideas and experiences
Lessons
- Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
- Eating Under the Rainbow
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online
- So Many Choices!
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Representing Ourselves Online
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
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 oral language with print and pictures
- understand that stories, information and personal experiences can be recorded in pictures and print and can be listened to, read or viewed
- expect print and pictures to have meaning and to be related to each other in print and other media texts
Respond to Texts
- participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres such as picture books, fairy tales, rhymes, stories, photographs, illustrations and video programs
- relate aspects of oral, print and other media texts to personal feelings and experiences
- talk about and represent the actions of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- talk about experiences similar or related to those in oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques
- experience a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- identify the main characters in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Create Original Text
- contribute ideas and answer questions related to experiences and familiar oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
- Eating Under the Rainbow
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Process
- ask questions to make sense of information
Lessons
To encourage children to discuss their feelings about television violence:
To encourage children to explore their feelings about food advertisements:
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Managing Superhero Play
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about the News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- explore personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, print and other media texts
- explore oral, print and other media texts from various communities
Lessons
Teacher/Parent Guides