Outcome Chart - Ontario - Language 7

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

MediaSmarts Resources

Advertising

Alcohol

Body Image

Internet

Newspapers

Privacy

Sports

Stereotyping

Television

Tobacco

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

MediaSmarts Resources

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

MediaSmarts Resources

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

MediaSmarts Resources