This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 2 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
It is expected that students will:
General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent |
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Specific Expectations Use conversation to explore personal understanding. Reflect about self as reader, writer, viewer, listener, speaker, and representer Clarify new understandings of connections Explore personal and others’ opinions |
Lessons Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script |
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts, through a process. |
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Specific Expectations Use prior knowledge to make connections between self and texts (oral, print and other media) Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning in oral, print and other media texts Integrate context cues and purpose, phonics, sight vocabulary, word meaning, and structural analysis, to construct and confirm meaning Explore a variety of oral, print and other media texts Respond to oral, print and other media texts creatively and critically Identify similarities and differences between self and portrayals in texts (oral, print and other media) from other communities Recognize differences among a variety of forms and genres of texts (oral, print and other media); talk about audience/purpose in relation to form/genre Listen to, read, and view to identify the techniques and elements of texts (oral, print and other media) |
Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What? Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online Educational Games |
General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process. |
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Specific Expectations Record personal knowledge of a topic to identify information needs in own and group inquiry Ask questions to understand a topic and identify information needs in own and group inquiry Recall and follow directions for accessing and gathering information for own and group inquiry Select relevant information from a variety of sources to answer inquiry or research questions Make connections between prior knowledge, ideas, information and text features Categorize related information and ideas using a variety of strategies Record key facts in own words; identify titles and authors of sources Examine gathered information to decide what information to share or omit Ask questions to reflect on inquiry or research experiences |
Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families |
General Learning Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written and visual forms of information, through a process. |
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Specific Expectations Generate and focus ideas on a topic using a variety of strategies Create original texts (oral, print and other media) Participate in focused conversations about own and others’ texts and representations (oral, print and other media) Clarify and extend ideas by adding some details and/or information Experiment with language to create desired effect in oral, print and other media texts |
Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script |
General Learning Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society |
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Specific Expectations Work in a variety of partnerships and groups to follow pre-established group processes by responding to others Tell, draw and write about self, family and community |
Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What? |