Cyberbullying Posters
These posters are freely available to print and hang in your schools, in libraries, or community centres.
Responding to Online Pornography
Given the high likelihood that youth are going to come across or seek out online pornography at one point or another, not to mention the many messages they receive about sex through other media, it’s important that parents take an active role in their kids’ internet use and start talking to them about healthy relationships and sexuality at early ages to help them contextualize and make decisions about what they’re seeing online.
Atlantic Provinces
Photo credits: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
English Language Arts Grades 10-12
In Prince Edward Island, “English language arts encompasses the experience, study, and appreciation of language, literature, media, and communication.” The curriculum defines a text as “any language event, whether oral, written, visual, or digital. In this sense, a conversation, a poem, a novel, an online exchange, a poster, a music video, or a multimedia production are all considered texts.
Kindergarten
Ontario has a single curriculum for Junior and Senior Kindergarten. According to the document The Kindergarten Program (2016), "the Kindergarten program reflects the belief that four- and five-year-olds are capable and competent learners, full of potential and ready to take ownership of their learning.
English Language Arts K-5
English Language Arts in Newfoundland is divided into three strands: Reading and Viewing, Writing and Representing and Speaking and Listening. While media literacy skills are found in all three strands, they are best represented in Reading and Viewing.