Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 7
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- express personal understandings of ideas and information based on prior knowledge, experiences with others and a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- reflect on own observations and experiences to understand and develop oral, print and other media texts
- discuss and respond to ways that content and forms of oral, print and other media texts interact to influence understanding
Lessons
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- 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
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- That’s Not Cool
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Violence and Video Games
Student Tutorials
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts
Use Strategies and Cues
- select and focus relevant ideas from personal experiences and prior knowledge to understand new ideas and information
Respond to Texts
- experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- justify own point of view about oral, print and other media texts, using evidence from texts
- express interpretations of oral, print, and other media texts in another form or genre
- compare the choices and behaviours of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts with those of self and others
- identify and explain the usefulness, effectiveness and limitations of various forms of oral, print and other media texts
- reflect on, revise and elaborate on initial impressions of oral, print and other media texts, through subsequent reading, listening and viewing activities
Understand Forms and Techniques
- identify various forms and genres of oral, print and other media texts and describe key characteristics of each
- identify the characteristics of different types of media texts
- explain how sound and image work together to create effects in media texts
- explore surprising and playful uses of language and visuals in popular culture, such as cartoons, animated films and limericks
Create Original Text
- create oral, print and other media texts that are unified by point of view, carefully developed plot and endings
- consistent with previous events create a variety of oral, print and other media texts to explore ideas related to particular topics or themes
Lessons
- Bias in the News
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- 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
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Scientific Detectives
- Selling Obesity
- Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
- That’s Not Cool
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Educational Game
Student Tutorial
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Focus
- obtain information from a variety of sources, such as adults, peers, advertisements, magazines, lyrics, formal interviews, almanacs, broadcasts and videos, to explore research questions
- distinguish between fact and opinion, and follow the development of argument and opinion
Lessons
- Bias in the News
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- 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
- Scientific Detectives
- Selling Obesity
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- That’s Not Cool
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
- Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Educational Game
Student Tutorial
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Enhance and Improve
- identify particular content features that enhance the effectiveness of published oral, print and other media texts
- incorporate particular content features of effective texts into own oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- discuss how ideas, people, experiences and cultural traditions are portrayed in various oral, print and other media texts
- explain how differing perspectives and unique reactions expand understanding
Lessons
- Bias in the News
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Media Kids
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
Student Tutorial