Listening and Speaking
Outcome 1: Students will communicate effectively and clearly and respond personally and critically, respecting cultural contexts.
- Actively listen in a variety of collaborative learning experiences showing an awareness of when to listen and when to speak.
- Respond personally and critically to clarify information.
- Identify the main idea when directly stated and identify a number of key and supporting details.
- Describe a personal experience in sequential order.
- Explain personal opinions and respond to questions of others.
- Consider others’ responses and offer opinions supported by one or two reasons.
- Clarify opinions by responding to the questions and ideas/opinions of others.
- Use intonation, expression, and tone in a range of conversations, with some awareness of various nonverbal cues.
- Reflect upon a variety of oral presentations considering the speaker’s perspective.
- Use complex sentences that/use grade-appropriate vocabulary with some detail.
- Begin to use transition words.
- Respond to and give sequential multi-step directions.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Sheroes and Heroes - Lesson
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Outcome 2: Students will interact with sensitivity and respect, considering cultural contexts, audience, purpose, and situation.
- Converse and collaborate in a variety of situations with growing sensitivity and respect, considering cultural contexts, audience, and purpose.
- Begin to use intonation, tone, and expression to communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of situations, considering audience, and purpose.
- Continue to make language choices that affirm sensitivity and respect to the ideas and experiences of others.
- Use language showing a growing awareness of audiences and situations.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- What’s in a Word?
Reading and Viewing
Outcome 3: Students will demonstrate a variety of ways to select and comprehend from a range of culturally diverse print and digital texts
- Use all sources of information (meaning, structure, visual) to search, check, self-monitor, and self-correct with grade-appropriate, instructional-level text.
- Choose “just right” texts according to interests from a growing range of genres.
- Monitor and self-correct with growing independence and automaticity with grade-appropriate, instructional-level text.
- Build stamina through reading grade appropriate, independent level texts.
- Apply a variety of word-solving strategies with growing independence.
- Use punctuation to enhance comprehension and fluency with increasing awareness.
- Use a range of fiction and nonfiction text features to support comprehension, using grade-appropriate texts.
- Retell a narrative, using relevant details and events.
- Explain and/or represent an understanding of texts from a variety of genres.
- Discuss text with reference to author’s and illustrator’s message.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Violence in Sports
Outcome 4: Students will select, interpret, and combine information from culturally diverse contexts
- Formulate relevant questions that guide research to build a deeper understanding of a topic.
- Use some text features in print and digital media to access information.
- Begin to refine keyword choices in a search engine to access relevant information.
- Select relevant, dependable sources of information, with guidance.
- Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with guidance.
- Combine information to enhance understanding, with guidance.
- Give credit to sources of information, with guidance
Outcome 5: Students will respond personally and critically to a range of culturally diverse texts.
- Share meaningful, personal connections that support comprehension orally and/or in writing.
- Begin to ask critical-thinking questions to clarify understanding, with guidance.
- Explore and discuss the message(s) of the author.
- Support opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text.
- Support opinions with personal thoughts and feelings.
- Begin to develop an awareness of stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice, with guidance
- Begin to respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice, with guidance.
- Recognize authors’ viewpoints, providing evidence from the text and personal experiences.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Passport to the Internet (licensed resource)
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Outcome 6: Students will understand the speaking, reading, and writing relationship by independently and collaboratively creating diverse texts.
- Explore and discuss elements that contribute to the authors’ craft in a variety of texts.
- Begin to experiment with author’s craft by incorporating elements in writing.
- Identify how the elements of author’s craft contribute to writing style(s).
- Collaborate with peers, considering peers’ ideas and suggestions to craft writing.
- Reflect on writing using exemplars to self-evaluate, with support.
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Avatars and Body Image
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
Writing and Other Ways of Representing
Outcome 7: Students will be expected to use writing and other representations to explore, clarify and reflect upon thoughts and experiences.
- Explore various forms/genres of writing to develop imagination.
- Experiment with the purpose(s) of specific pieces of writing.
- Consider the audience(s) for specific pieces of writing.
- Experiment by using descriptive language and word choice to enhance meaning with support.
- Propose questions to clarify thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- Begin to write an effective lead, a descriptive middle, and a conclusion.
- Explore ways to record, organize, and reflect on thinking and learning through writing and representing.
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Avatars and Body Image
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
Outcome 8: Students will be expected to create text, independently and collaboratively, using a variety of types of writing for a range of audiences and purposes.
- choose forms of writing that are appropriate to specific purposes and audiences (e.g., narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive)
- Experiment by using types of writing that are appropriate to specific purposes and audiences with support.
- Include information and details that are relevant and purposeful for an intended audience with support.
- Invite responses to early drafts.
- Use print and digital graphic organizers to plan writing.
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
Outcome 9: Students will use a range of strategies within the writing process to enhance the clarity, precision, and effectiveness of their writing.
- Experiment with a range of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and presentation strategies with peers and independently.
- Use the conventions of written language in final products with support.
- Use a range of problem-solving strategies to spell accurately, with support
- Build word knowledge by manipulating, searching, and sorting
- Show commitment to shaping pieces of writing and other representations through stages of writing development.
- Experiment with a range of digital tools in writing and other forms of representing.
- Use the traits of writing (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions).
MediaSmarts Resources