New Brunswick - English Language Arts 3
Strand: Interactions
Big Idea: Expression
Skill Descriptor:
Describe and discuss thoughts, feelings, experiences, ideas, and opinions.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe emotions, personal experiences, and situations with details
Discuss thoughts and feelings with others providing examples of experiences
Use descriptive language to express personal ideas and opinions
Use complete sentences and/or full thoughts to make a point
Explain opinions, providing supportive information or reasons
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Looking at News
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Wacky Media Songs: Community Engagement
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skill Descriptor:
Select and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions to peers and teachers.
Achievement Indicators:
Use descriptive language to share information, ideas, or wonderings about a specific topic or theme
MediaSmarts Resources
Skill Descriptor:
Explore the language of harmony and respect.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe helpful, respectful, and equitable language
Identify differences between kind and hurtful language
Begin to use inclusive language that respects gender identity
Begin to use language that demonstrates cultural sensitivity and respect
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Media Stereotypes
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Rules of the Game
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Big Idea: Exchanges
Skill Descriptor:
Ask and respond to questions to clarify information, explore possibilities, or identify solutions to a problem.
Achievement Indicators:
Respond with solutions or suggestions and relevant information from text or other sources
Respond with possible next steps or actions
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- So Many Choices!
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skill Descriptor:
Respond personally to presentations, oral stories, and multi-modal text.
Achievement Indicators:
Respond to presentations and oral stories with questions, wonderings, or reflections
Respond to multi-modal text with questions, opinions, or reflections
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Internet Time Capsule
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Community Engagement
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Health
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to use social conventions when interacting.
Achievement Indicators:
Demonstrate consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others
Use words in place of actions to seek a response (conflict resolution, negotiation, material requests, etc.)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Rules of the Game
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
Big Idea: Reception
Skill Descriptor:
Receive and critically reflect on the ideas and opinions of others.
Achievement Indicators:
Receive and demonstrate consideration for the personal beliefs of others
Receive and demonstrate consideration for questions and comments of others
Discuss the reasons for differing opinions or beliefs
Reflect on differing opinions before responding in agreement or disagreement
Demonstrate consideration of feedback and responses from those assessing their work to extend learning
MediaSmarts Resources
Strand: Reading
Big Idea: Reading Comprehension
Skill Descriptor:
Connect and respond personally and critically to text.
Achievement Indicators:
Explain connections between text and text, text and world, and text and self, citing prior knowledge and understandings
Respond critically to a variety of text features and forms with questions, opinions, or reflections
Use background knowledge to analyze information presented in print and visual texts
Identify instances where language is being used for a specific purpose (for emphasis, to entertain, persuade, manipulate, or control)
Identify examples of prejudice or stereotyping
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looking at News
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Packaging Tricks
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Consumer Awareness
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Big Idea: Text Analysis
Skill Descriptor:
Select and engage with a variety of text forms (images, visual media, cultural stories, artifacts, etc.) for specific uses
Achievement Indicators:
Select from a variety of text forms, for interest or learning needs (narrative text, information text, braille, audio book, graphic text, non-fiction text, etc.)
Read or view a variety of text forms for interest or learning needs in first or additional languages
Express preferences and opinions about text and text features to others
Seek text to build upon prior knowledge or current understandings
Refer to various text forms for knowledge, entertainment, interest, and information
MediaSmarts Resources
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Girls and Boys on Television
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
Skill Descriptor:
Identify characteristics, forms, features, and types of text.
Achievement Indicators:
Identify text characteristics (characters, settings, plot, etc.)
Identify text forms (fiction, non-fiction, videos, poems, posters, letters, imaginary text, etc.)
Use text features to gain additional information from the text (table of contents, chapters, figures, etc.)
Locate topics and obtain information
Describe some elements of an author’s/creator’s style
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looking at News
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
Strand: Representations
Big Idea: Text Analysis
Skill Descriptor:
Select information from multiple sources to support ideas and construct meaning.
Achievement Indicators:
Use information from one or two sources to support ideas
Gather information to answer a question or solve a problem
Use information to form a simple argument