Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts Grade Two
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
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
- 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
- Introducing TV Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Internet Time Capsule
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Rules of the Game
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
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.
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
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- TV Stereotypes
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
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.
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
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Introducing TV Families
- So Many Choices!
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
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.
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
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Introducing TV Families
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- TV Stereotypes
- Healthy Food Web
- Rules of the Game
- Internet Time Capsule
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
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
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Representing Ourselves Online