Listening and Speaking
Outcome 1: Students will communicate effectively and clearly and respond personally and critically, respecting cultural contexts.
- Critically listen to others’ ideas or opinions and perspectives in a variety of collaborative learning experiences, showing control of when to listen and when to speak.
- Respond personally and critically to clarify information.
- Identify main ideas including key and supporting details and identify conclusions with supporting evidence.
- Describe a personal experience in sequential order, defend and/or support ideas with evidence and respond to the questions and opinions of others.
- Consider others’ responses and offer thoughtful opinions supported with evidence.
- Clarify opinions by responding to the questions and opinions/ideas of others by providing a variety of reasons to support thinking.
- Use intonation, expression, and tone in a range of conversations, responding to various nonverbal cues with increasing independence.
- Reflect critically upon a variety of oral presentations evaluating and responding to the speaker’s perspective.
- Use complex sentences that incorporate grade-appropriate vocabulary with detail, using transition words with some independence.
- Respond to and give sequential multi-step directions with increasing detail and complexity.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Activity One: Looking Through the Lenses - Lesson
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Put Downs
- Sheroes and Heroes - Lesson
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- What’s in a Word?
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
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 sensitivity and respect, considering cultural contexts, audience, and purpose.
- Intentionally use intonation, tone, and expression to communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of situations, considering audience and purpose.
- Make mindful language choices that affirm sensitivity and respect to the ideas and experiences of others.
- Use language consciously considering the needs and expectations of the audience 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
- Put Downs
- 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 interest from a growing range of genres with independence.
- Monitor and self-correct with independence and automaticity with a grade-appropriate, instructional-level text.
- Build stamina through reading grade appropriate, independent-level texts.
- Apply a variety of word-solving strategies with independence
- Use punctuation to enhance comprehension and fluency with awareness and independence.
- Use a range of fiction and nonfiction text features to support comprehension with increasing independence, using grade-appropriate texts.
- Retell a narrative, using relevant details and events in sequential order with increasing independence
- Explain and/or represent an understanding of texts from a variety of genres with increasing detail.
- Discuss text with reference to author’s and illustrator’s message, perspective, and style.
- Apply a repertoire of comprehension strategies to actively construct meaning with grade-appropriate texts.
- Discuss and reflect on how applying comprehension strategies enhances understanding.
- Use graphic organizers to enhance comprehension and demonstrate understanding.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the grade-appropriate text by reading aloud, using intonation, rhythm, and phrasing.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Freedom to Smoke
- 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 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
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Scientific Detectives
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
- Violence in Sports
- What’s in a Word?
Outcome 4: Students will select, interpret, and combine information from culturally diverse contexts
- Formulate critical questions that guide research to build a deeper understanding of a topic.
- Use text features in print and digital media to access information independently.
- Use keywords effectively in a search engine to access relevant information.
- Select relevant, dependable sources of information, with growing independence.
- Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with growing independence.
- Combine information to enhance understanding, with growing independence.
- Give credit to sources of information with guidance, with growing independence.
- Give credit to sources of information, with beginning independence.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Freedom to Smoke
- 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 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Passport to the Internet (licensed resource)
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- The True Story
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Outcome 5: Students will respond personally and critically to a range of culturally diverse texts.
- Share meaningful, personal connections to deepen comprehension orally and/or in writing.
- Ask critical-thinking questions to clarify understanding, with increasing independence.
- Explain with supporting evidence the messages(s) of the author.
- Support and justify opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text.
- Support and justify opinions with personal thoughts and feelings.
- Recognize stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice, with guidance.
- Respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice, with some guidance.
- Begin to support or challenge 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
- Freedom to Smoke
- 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 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Passport to the Internet (licensed resource)
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- The True Story
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Outcome 6: Students will understand the speaking, reading, and writing relationship by independently and collaboratively creating diverse texts.
- Compare and discuss elements that contribute to the authors’ craft in a variety of texts.
- Experiment with author’s craft by incorporating elements in writing with increasing independence.
- Examine and discuss how elements of the author’s craft contribute to writing style(s).
- Collaborate with peers, evaluating and selecting ideas and suggestions to craft writing.
- Reflect on writing, using exemplars to self-evaluate, with increasing independence.
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Avatars and Body Image
- Cop Shows
- Editing Emotions
- Images of Learning
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Writing a Newspaper Article
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.
- Use various forms/genres of writing to develop imagination with increasing independence.
- Develop the purpose(s) of specific pieces of writing.
- Choose the audience(s) for specific pieces of writing.
- Experiment by using descriptive language and word choice to enhance meaning, with increasing independence.
- Refine questions to clarify thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- Write an engaging lead, a descriptive middle, and a satisfying conclusion.
- Refine ways to record, organize, and reflect on thinking and learning through writing and representing with increasing independence.
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Avatars and Body Image
- Cop Shows
- Editing Emotions
- Images of Learning
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Writing a Newspaper Article
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.
- Use types of writing that are appropriate to specific purposes and audiences, with increasing independence.
- Include information and specific details that are relevant and purposeful for an intended audience, with increasing independence.
- Elaborate on responses to early drafts.
- Use print and digital graphic organizers to enhance writing.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Reporter For a Day
- TV Stereotypes
- Writing a Newspaper Article
Outcome 9: Students will use a range of strategies within the writing process to enhance the clarity, precision, and effectiveness of their writing.
- Use 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 increasing independence.
- Use a range of problem-solving strategies to spell accurately, with increasing independence
- Apply and extend word knowledge by manipulating, searching, and sorting
- Commit to shaping pieces of writing and other representations through stages of writing development.
- Select and use a range digital tools with increasing proficiency in writing and other forms of representing.
- Use the traits of writing (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, writing conventions) in writing.
MediaSmarts Resources