This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 5 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Understanding Media Texts
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- identify the purpose and audience for a variety of media texts
- use overt and implied messages to draw inferences and construct meaning in media texts
- express opinions about ideas, issues, and/or experiences presented in media texts, and give evidence from the texts to support their opinions
- explain why different audiences might respond differently to the same media text
- identify whose point of view is presented or reflected in a media text, ask questions to identify missing or alternative points of view, and, where appropriate, suggest how a more balanced view might be represented
- identify who produces various media texts, the reason for their production, how they are produced, and how they are funded
MediaSmarts Resources
- Media Minute Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- 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
Advertising
- Advertising All Around Us
- Anatomy of Cool
- Junk Food Jungle
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Packaging Tricks
Alcohol
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Messages About Drinking
Body Image
Gender Portrayal
Privacy
Sports
Stereotyping
- Stereotype and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Television
- Television as a Story Teller
- Learning With Television
- Television Techniques
- Who Does What?
- The Constructed World of TV Families
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- TV Stereotypes
Educational Games
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- describe in detail the main elements of some media forms
- identify the conventions and techniques used in some familiar media forms and explain how they help convey meaning and influence or engage the audience
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- 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 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Packaging Tricks
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Violence in Sports
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Creating Media Texts
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- describe in detail 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, and explain why it is an appropriate choice
- identify conventions and techniques appropriate to the form chosen for a media text they plan to create, and explain how they will use the conventions and techniques to help communicate their message
- produce a variety of media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- The Anatomy of Cool
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Violence in Sports
What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson - Winning the Cyber Security Game
Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- identify, with some support and direction, what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts, and explain how these and other strategies can help them improve as media viewers/listeners/producers
- explain, with some support and direction, how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them to make sense of and produce media texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- 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 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson