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
Explore diverse ideas to develop predictions, opinions, conclusions, and understanding.
1.1.2 Consider Others’ Ideas
Integrate new understanding with previous viewpoints and interpretations.
1.1.3 Experiment with Language and Form
Experiment with memorable language to convey personal perceptions, feelings, experiences, thoughts, and ideas in various forms.
1.1.4 Express Preferences
Pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers.
1.1.5 Set Goals
Self-monitor growth in language learning and use, using predetermined criteria.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.1 Develop Understanding
Discuss the importance of reflecting on prior experiences and knowledge to revise conclusions and understandings.
1.2.2 Explain Opinions
Articulate, represent, and explain personal viewpoints clearly.
1.2.3 Combine Ideas
Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
1.2.4 Extend Understanding
Reconsider initial understanding in light of new information, and ask clarifying questions; listen to diverse opinions and recognize ambiguity.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Activity One: Looking Through the Lenses - Lesson
- Activity Three: Adjusting the Focus - Lesson
- Allies and Aliens
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Cinema Cops
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Mirror Image
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- News Journalism: Definitions and Comments about the News
- News Journalism: Radio News
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scientific Detectives
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Television News
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- The True Story
- Truth or Money
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Unpacking Privilege
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Video Games
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
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 previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a variety of texts, and apply them to new contexts.
2.1.2 Comprehension Strategies
Use a variety of comprehension strategies [including adjusting reading rate, summarizing main ideas, SQ3R, structured overviews, and checking with peers] to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
2.1.3 Textual Cues
Use textual cues [such as the structures and elements of specific genres…] to construct and confirm meaning and interpret texts.
2.1.4 Cueing Systems
Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cueing systems [including word order; sentence structure; context clues; structural analysis to identify foreign roots, prefixes, and suffixes] to construct and confirm meaning and interpret texts [including meaning of specialized and technical vocabulary].
2.2 Respond to Texts
2.2.1 Experience Various Texts
Experience texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as magazine articles, diaries, drama, advertisements…] and cultural traditions; compare own interpretations to those of others.
2.2.2 Connect Self, Texts, and Culture
Discuss how similar ideas, people, experiences, and traditions are conveyed in various oral, literary, and media texts [including texts about Canada or by Canadian writers].
2.2.3 Appreciate the Artistry of Texts
Identify and describe techniques used to create mood in oral, literary, and media texts.
2.3 Understand Forms and Techniques
2.3.1 Forms and Genre
Demonstrate appreciation for the appropriate use of various forms and genres according to purpose, audience, and content.
2.3.2 Techniques and Elements
Identify a variety of techniques [such as characterization, word choice, framing, angle…] used to create particular effects or to portray various cultures in oral, literary, and media texts.
2.3.3 Vocabulary
Explore factors [such as history, social trends, geographic isolation…] that influence word families and the evolution of language.
2.3.4 Experiment with Language
Identify creative uses of language in popular culture [such as commercials, advertisements, rock videos…]; explain how imagery and figures of speech create tone and mood in texts.
2.3.5 Create Original Texts
Create original texts [such as descriptions, panel discussions, impersonations, collages, timelines, documentary videos, journals or diaries…] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Cinema Cops
- Cop Shows
- Creating A Youth Consumer Magazine
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Editing Emotions
- Female Action Heroes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- How to Analyze the News
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum - Lesson
- News Journalism: Radio News
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Television News
- The Broadcast Project - Lesson
- The Newspaper Front Page
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Unpacking Privilege
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Writing a Newspaper Article
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
Determine personal knowledge of a topic to generate possible areas of inquiry or research.
3.1.2 Ask Questions
Formulate relevant main and subordinate questions on a topic to establish a purpose for gathering information.
3.1.3 Contribute to Group Inquiry
Contribute ideas, knowledge and strategies to help identify group information needs and sources.
3.1.4 Create and Follow a Plan
Prepare and use a plan to access, gather, and record in own words relevant information.
3.2 Select and Process
3.2.1 Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge
Access, record, and appraise personal and peer knowledge and understanding of a topic to establish an information base for inquiry or research.
3.2.2 Identify Sources
Distinguish between fact and opinion when inquiring or researching using a variety of information sources [such as artifacts, debates, forums, biographies, autobiographies…].
3.2.3 Assess Sources
Develop and use criteria for evaluating information sources for a particular inquiry or research plan.
3.2.4 Access Information
Recall, expand, and use a variety of skills [including visual and auditory] to access information and ideas from a variety of sources [including subtitles, marginal notes and key words, electronic searches, previews and reviews, visual effects, and sound effects].
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3.2.5 Make Sense of Information
Construct meaning using direct statements, implied meaning, and inferences; adjust rate of reading or viewing according to purpose, topic, density of information, and organizational patterns of text.
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess
3.3.1 Organize Information
Organize information and ideas in order of priority according to topic and task requirements.
3.3.2 Record Information
Make notes in point form, summarizing major ideas and supporting details; reference sources.
3.3.3 Evaluate Information
Set aside personal bias to evaluate the relevance and importance of information collected; address information gaps for particular forms, audiences, and purposes.
3.3.4 Develop New Understanding
Incorporate new information with prior knowledge and experiences; adjust inquiry and research strategies to accommodate changing perspectives and availability of pertinent information.
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Passport to the Internet (licensed resource)
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
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
Experiment with several ways to generate ideas and focus a topic.
4.1.2 Choose Forms
Compose using specific forms [such as biographies, letters to the editor, newspaper articles, audio-visual presentations…] that ensure a match between content, audience, and purpose.
4.1.3 Organize Ideas
Identify and use a variety of organizational patterns [such as rising action, pyramid structure, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, sequence…] in own oral, written, and visual texts; compose effective introductions and conclusions.
4.2 Enhance and Improve
4.2.1 Appraise Own and Others’ Work
Share own work in a variety of ways; appraise particular aspects [such as word choice, description, language usage, organization, audience appeal…] of own and others’ work and presentations using pre-established criteria.
4.2.2 Revise Content
Revise to enhance meaning and effect according to audience and purpose.
4.2.3 Enhance Legibility
Format for legibility and emphasis when composing and revising; enhance the coherence and impact of documents using electronic editing functions [such as cut, paste, copy, insert…].
4.2.4 Enhance Artistry
Experiment with figures of speech and compound and complex sentences to clarify and combine ideas; provide effective descriptions.
4.2.5 Enhance Presentation
Prepare compositions, reports, presentations, and inquiry or research projects using a variety of organizers [such as chapters, table of contents, headings, introduction, conclusion…].
4.3 Attend to Conventions
4.3.1 Grammar and Usage
Edit for sentence variety, word choice, and tone appropriate to audience and purpose, and to eliminate misplaced modifiers.
4.3.2 Spelling (see Strategies)
Know spelling conventions and apply them to familiar and unfamiliar words; use appropriate resources when editing and proofreading.
4.3.3 Punctuation and Capitalization
Know and apply capitalization and punctuation conventions consistently in a variety of sentence structures and written forms when editing and proofreading.
4.4 Present and Share
4.4.1 Share Ideas and Information
Plan and facilitate small-group activities and short, whole-class sessions to share information on a topic using a variety of engaging methods [such as mini-lessons, role-plays, visual aids…].
4.4.2 Effective Oral Communication
Explain, share, and present orally using appropriate conventions of public speaking in a variety of settings [such as small-group and whole-class presentations…]; use visual aids to enhance the effectiveness of oral presentations.
4.4.3 Attentive Listening and Viewing
Demonstrate critical listening and viewing skills and strategies [such as activating prior knowledge, integrating new information, evaluating the effectiveness of the introduction and conclusion…] and show respect for presenter(s).
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol Myths
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Buy Nothing Day
- Cop Shows
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Creating A Youth Consumer Magazine
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Editing Emotions
- Elections and the Media
- Female Action Heroes
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Images of Learning
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum - Lesson
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Television News
- That’s Not Cool
- The Broadcast Project - Lesson
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- The Newspaper Front Page
- Tobacco Labels
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Violence in Sports
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- Writing a Newspaper Article
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
Express personal reactions to a variety of experiences and texts and compare them with the reactions of others.
5.1.2 Relate Texts to Culture
Recognize ways in which oral, literary, and media texts capture specific elements of a culture or period in history.
5.1.3 Appreciate Diversity
Interpret the choices and motives of individuals encountered in oral, literary and media texts and examine how they relate to self and others; discuss personal participation and responsibility in communities.
5.1.4 Celebrate Special Occasions
Use appropriate language to participate in public events, occasions, or traditions.
5.2 Encourage, Support, and Work with Others
5.2.1 Cooperate with Others
Engage in dialogue to understand the feelings and viewpoints of others and contribute to group harmony.
5.2.2 Work in Groups
Organize and complete tasks cooperatively and collaboratively; evaluate group productivity and efficiency.
5.2.3 Use Language to Show Respect
Demonstrate respect for other people’s language, history, and culture.
5.2.4 Evaluate Group Process
Evaluate the quality of own contributions to group process and set goals and plans for development of personal skills; evaluate group process and plan for growth.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Activity Two: Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development - Lesson
- Allies and Aliens
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Female Action Heroes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Unpacking Privilege
- What’s in a Word?
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers