This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 7 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Understanding Media Texts
By the end of Grade 7, students will:
- explain how a variety of media texts address their intended purpose and audience
- interpret increasingly complex 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 a variety of media texts
- demonstrate understanding that different media texts reflect different points of view
- identify who produces various media texts and determine the commercial, ideological, political, cultural, and/or artistic interests or perspectives that the texts may involve
Lessons that meet the grade seven expectations
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
- Put Your Best Face Forward
Advertising
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
- Alcohol Myths
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Body Image
Internet
Media
News Journalism Across the Media:
Newspapers
Privacy
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life
Sports
Stereotyping
- Comic Book Characters
- Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Pigs
- The Girl in the Mirror
Television
Tobacco
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
- True Story
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender and Tobacco
- Tobacco Labels
Video Games
Educational Game
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
By the end of Grade 7, 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 7, students will:
- explain why they have chosen the topic for a media text they plan to create (e.g., a class newspaper or pamphlet to inform parents about the achievements and activities of students in the class), and identify challenges they may face in engaging and/or influencing their audience
- 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 7, 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