Alberta - English Language Arts Kindergarten
Text Forms and Structures
Identifying and applying text forms and structures improves understanding of content, literary style, and our rich language traditions.
Guiding question: How can ideas and information be organized?
Learning outcome: children explore how messages can be organized.
Skills and Procedures
Explore messages shared for different reasons.
Engage with messages for enjoyment.
Discuss the differences between messages that are imaginary (fiction) or real (non-fiction).
Explore messages shared in a variety of forms.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Comprehension
Text comprehension is supported by applying varied strategies and processes and by considering both particular contexts and universal themes.
Guiding Question: How are messages understood?
Learning Outcome: Children demonstrate understandings of messages communicated in texts
Knowledge
Connections can be made to ideas and information in texts, including to
- experiences
- feelings
Understanding
Understanding messages in texts involves making connections.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skills and Procedures
Share connections between a text and personal feelings or experiences.
MediaSmarts Resources
Knowledge
Questions that help understand messages in texts include
- Who?
- What?
- Where?
- When?
- Why?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Writing
Ideas and information can be articulated accurately and imaginatively through the use of writing processes and an understanding of the author’s craft.
Guiding Question: How can messages be recorded?
Learning Outcome: Children experiment with written expression of ideas and information.
Knowledge
Ideas for personal expression can be inspired by experiences with people, places, and things.
Creative thinking includes using imagination, ideas, or materials to create or to make changes to a creation.
Messages have creators.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
Understanding
Ideas and information can be expressed creatively to learn and have fun.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Packaging Tricks
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
Skills and Procedures
Express ideas and information in a variety of creative ways.
Apply creative thinking to create or make changes to a representation of a message.
Identify the creator or creators of a variety of messages.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
Knowledge
Factual information can be gathered from a variety of people, places, or things (sources).
Information can be shared through messages that include pictures, letters, or words.
MediaSmarts Resources
Skills and Procedures
Ask questions about real people, places, or things to learn more about them.
Gather factual information from a variety of people, places, or things.
Share factual information.
MediaSmarts Resources
Knowledge
Messages can be shared in digital or non-digital ways, including
- pictures
- symbols
- letters
- words
- scribbles
Understanding
Messages can be created using a variety of digital or non-digital methods or tools.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
Skills and Procedures
Create a variety of digital or non-digital messages.