Outcome Chart - Ontario - Language 3

This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Ontario, Grade 3 English Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Understanding Media Texts

By the end of Grade 3, students will:

  • identify the purpose and intended audience of some simple media texts
  • use overt and implied messages to draw inferences and make meaning in simple media texts
  • express personal opinions about ideas presented in media texts
  • describe how different audiences might respond to specific media texts
  • identify whose point of view is presented or reflected in a media text and suggest how the text might change if a different point of view were used
  • identify who produces selected media texts and why those texts are produced

MediaSmarts Resources

Advertising

Body Image

Internet

Sports

Stereotyping

Television

Teacher/Parent Guides

Educational Games

Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques

By the end of Grade 3, students will:

  • identify elements and characteristics of some media forms
  • identify the conventions and techniques used in some familiar media forms and explain how they help convey meaning

MediaSmarts Resources

Creating Media Texts

By the end of Grade 3, students will:

  • identify the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create
  • identify an appropriate form to suit the purpose and audience for a media text they plan to create
  • identify conventions and techniques appropriate to the form chosen for a media text they plan to create
  • produce media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques

MediaSmarts Resources

Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies

By the end of Grade 3, students will:

  • identify, initially with support and direction, what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts
  • explain, initially with support and direction, how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them to make sense of and produce media texts

MediaSmarts Resources