This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 6 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Understanding Media Texts
By the end of Grade 6, students will:
- explain how a variety of media texts address their intended purpose and audience
- interpret media texts, using overt and implied messages as evidence for their interpretations
- evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and treatment of ideas, information, themes, opinions, issues, and/or experiences in media texts
- explain why different audiences might have different responses to media texts
- identify whose point of view is presented in a media text, identify missing or alternative points of view, and, where appropriate, determine whether the chosen view achieves a particular goal
- identify who produces various media texts, the reason for their production, how they are produced, and how they are funded
Lessons that meet the grade six expectations
Advertising
- Advertising All Around Us
- Anatomy of Cool
- Media Kids
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Packaging Tricks
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick!
- Truth or Money
- Elections and the Media
- Junk Food Jungle
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Scientific Detectives
Alcohol
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Body Image
Gender Portrayal
Media
- Looking Through the Lenses
- Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development
- Adjusting the Focus
Privacy
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
Sports
Stereotyping
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Stereotype and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
Television
- Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV
- Television as a Story Teller
- Learning With Television
- How to Analyze the News
- Television Techniques
- Who Does What?
- The Constructed World of TV Families
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- Cop Shows
- TV Stereotypes
- The Broadcast Project
Tobacco
Internet
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
Educational Games
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
By the end of Grade 6, 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
Creating Media Texts
By the end of Grade 6, students will:
- describe in specific detail the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create, and identify challenges they may face in achieving their purpose
- identify an appropriate form to suit the specific 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
Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies
By the end of Grade 6, students will:
- identify 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 how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them to make sense of and produce media texts