Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 6
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 6 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In the elementary curriculum in Saskatchewan, learning objectives for media studies are included as a category within the supporting domain, Oracy and Literacy: Media. Media-related objectives can also be found within Speaking and Listening, Reading and Response to Literature, Writing, Educational Drama, Research and Presentation and Computer Applications.
Comprehend and Respond
Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to view, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a range of contemporary and traditional grade-level texts from First Nations, Métis, and other cultures in a variety of forms (oral, print, and other texts) for a variety of purposes including for learning, interest, and enjoyment.
Specific Expectations
- View and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of visual and multimedia texts with specific features (e.g., circle graphs) and complex ideas including the visual components of media such as magazines, newspapers, websites, reference books, graphic novels, broadcast media, videos and promotional materials.
- View critically to understand and analyze opinions and messages presented in visual and multimedia texts.
- Identify how a visual or multimedia (including digital) text was constructed, shaped, and produced.
- Analyze and evaluate what was seen in visual and multimedia (including digital) texts considering elements, techniques, and overall effect.
Lessons
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cop Shows
- Data Defenders
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
- Media Kids
- Media Minute Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Packaging Tricks
- Pay for Play
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- Thinking About Television and Movies
- TV Stereotypes
Compose and Create
Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to speak, write, and use other forms of representation to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Specific Expectations
- Create various visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts that explore identity (e.g., Exploring Thoughts, Feelings, and Ideas), social responsibility (e.g., Taking Action), and efficacy (e.g., Building a Better World).
- Create a variety of visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts including personal narratives, responses or reactions to texts, stories, reports, articles, instructions, explanations, opinions, letters, illustrations, diagrams, leaflets, stories, poems, storyboards, cartoons, and skits or short view scripts.
Lessons
- Avatars and Body Image
- Game Time
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
- 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
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques
- Understanding the Internet: Communication and Social Media
- Understanding the Internet: Using the Internet