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
- Eating Under the Rainbow
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
Body Image
Internet
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Healthy Food Web
- Internet Time Capsule
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
Sports
Stereotyping
- Once Upon a Time
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Community Engagement
Television
- 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
- Film Production: Who Does What?
- Introducing TV Families
- Learning With Television
- Television as a Story Teller
- Television Techniques
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- TV Stereotypes
Teacher/Parent Guides
- Talking to Kids about Advertising
- Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
- Talking to Kids about News
- Talking to Kids about Media Violence
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
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Healthy Food Web
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
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
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Healthy Food Web
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
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
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Healthy Food Web
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson