Strand
General Outcome 1:
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
1.1 Discover and Explore
1.1.1 Express Ideas
Talk about personal experiences and familiar events.
1.1.2 Consider Others’ Ideas
Listen to and acknowledge experiences and feelings shared by others.
1.1.3 Experiment with Language and Form
Use a variety of forms to express and explore familiar events, ideas, and information.
1.1.4 Express Preferences
Explain why an oral, literary, or media text is a personal favourite.
1.1.5 Set Goals
Choose to read and write with and for others.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.1 Develop Understanding
Connect new experiences and information with prior knowledge.
1.2.2 Explain Opinions
Describe new experiences and ideas.
1.2.3 Combine Ideas
Group and sort ideas and information to make sense.
1.2.4 Extend Understanding
Ask questions to make sense of experiences.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching TV: Enjoying Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.1 Prior Knowledge
Make connections between texts, prior knowledge, and personal experiences.
2.1.2 Comprehension Strategies
Ask questions to anticipate meaning and use a variety of strategies [including rereading and reading on] to confirm understanding.
2.1.3 Textual Cues
Use textual cues [such as pictures, patterns, rhymes…] to construct and confirm meaning.
2.1.4 Cueing Systems
Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cues [including differentiating between letters and words, basic sight words, sound-letter relationships to identify initial and final consonants, and letter clusters] to construct and confirm meaning; use dictionaries to determine word meaning in context.
2.2 Respond to Texts
2.2.1 Experience Various Texts
Participate in shared listening, reading, and viewing experiences using texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as poems, books with recurring language patterns, cartoons…] and cultural traditions.
2.2.2 Connect Self, Texts, and Culture
Share personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, literary, and media texts; identify choices that people make in texts [including texts about Canada or by Canadian writers].
2.2.3 Appreciate the Artistry of Texts
Share feelings and moods evoked by oral, literary, and media texts.
2.3 Understand Forms and Techniques
2.3.1 Forms and Genre
Recognize different forms and genres of oral, literary, and media texts [such as poetry, plays, storytelling by elders, video programs, cartoons…].
2.3.2 Techniques and Elements
Relate and represent the beginning, middle, and end of oral, literary, and media texts.
2.3.3 Vocabulary
Experiment with parts of words, word combinations, and word patterns [such as compound words, refrains, choruses…] for a variety of purposes.
2.3.4 Experiment with Language
Appreciate repetition, rhyme, and rhythm in shared language experiences [such as action songs, word play…].
2.3.5 Create Original Texts
Create original texts [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral or written stories…] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Enjoying Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- The Broadcast Project - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.1 Plan and Focus
3.1.1 Use Personal Knowledge
Discuss personal knowledge of a topic to discover information needs.
3.1.2 Ask Questions
Ask questions to satisfy personal curiosity on a topic and discuss information needs.
3.1.3 Contribute to Group Inquiry
Ask and answer questions to help satisfy group curiosity and information needs on a specific topic.
3.1.4 Create and Follow a Plan
Listen actively and recall and follow directions for gathering information.
3.2 Select and Process
3.2.1 Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge
Identify and share personal knowledge related to experiences.
3.2.2 Identify Sources
Answer questions using oral, visual, and print information sources [such as picture and concept books, people, multimedia, excursions, camps…].
3.2.3 Assess Sources
Recognize when information answers the questions asked.
3.2.4 Access Information
Understand that library materials have a specific organizational system, and use titles to locate information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to make meaning.
3.2.5 Make Sense of Information
Make and check predictions using prior knowledge and oral, visual, and written text features [such as illustrations, titles, opening shot sin video programs, electronic texts…] to understand information.
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess
3.3.1 Organize Information
Identify and categorize information according to similarities, differences, and sequences.
3.3.2 Record Information
Represent and tell key facts and ideas in own words.
3.3.3 Evaluate Information
Recognize and use gathered information as a basis for communication.
3.3.4 Develop New Understanding
Recall, talk about, and record information-gathering experiences.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
4.1 Generate and Focus
4.1.1 Generate Ideas
Contribute ideas from personal experiences for oral, written, and visual texts.
4.1.2 Choose Forms
Share ideas and experiences through talking, storytelling, pictures, singing, illustrations, and print.
4.1.3 Organize Ideas
Organize print and pictures to express ideas and tell stories.
4.2 Enhance and Improve
4.2.1 Appraise Own and Others’ Work
Demonstrate interest in and suggest enhancements for own and others’ work and presentations.
4.2.2 Revise Content
Rephrase and represent to clarify ideas.
4.2.3 Enhance Legibility
Strive for consistency in letter size and shape; print letters legibly from left to right horizontally, using lines on a page as a guide; explore and use the keyboard to produce text.
4.2.4 Enhance Artistry
Experiment with words and sentence patterns using specific structures [such as pocket charts, language experience charts, frame sentences, sentence strips…].
4.2.5 Enhance Presentation
Add captions and details to own stories and drawings.
4.3 Attend to Conventions
4.3.1 Grammar and Usage
Check for completeness of work and add details and enhancements.
4.3.2 Spelling (see Strategies)
Use sound-symbol relationships and visual memory to spell familiar words.
4.3.3 Punctuation and Capitalization
Capitalize the first letters of names, the beginnings of statements, and the pronoun “I”; use periods.
4.4 Present and Share
4.4.1 Share Ideas and Information
Share information and ideas in a brief presentation to a familiar audience; use illustrations and other materials to aid the presentation.
4.4.2 Effective Oral Communication
Present information and ideas in sentences.
4.4.3 Attentive Listening and Viewing
Demonstrate active listening and viewing skills and strategies [such as giving non-verbal encouragement, asking questions…].
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- The Broadcast Project - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to celebrate and to build community.
5.1 Develop and Celebrate Community
5.1.1 Compare Responses
Tell, draw, and write about self and family.
5.1.2 Relate Texts to Culture
Listen to stories from oral, literary, and media texts from various communities.
5.1.3 Appreciate Diversity
Relate aspects of stories and characters to personal feelings and experiences.
5.1.4 Celebrate Special Occasions
Share ideas and experiences through conversation, puppet plays, dramatic scenes, and songs.
5.2 Encourage, Support, and Work with Others
5.2.1 Cooperate with Others
Work in cooperative and collaborative partnerships and groups.
5.2.2 Work in Groups
Take turns sharing information and ideas.
5.2.3 Use Language to Show Respect
Recognize that individuals adjust language use according to the situation.
5.2.4 Evaluate Group Process
Help others and ask others for help; identify and assume roles necessary for maintenance of group process.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson