New Brunswick - English Language Arts 5
Strand: Interactions
Big Idea: Expression
Skill Descriptor:
Express and discuss thoughts, feelings, experiences, ideas, and opinions, and consider those of their peers.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe their thoughts and emotions, personal experiences, and the experiences of others with details
Use descriptive language to express personal ideas and wonderings
Use complete sentences and/or full thoughts to make a point
Explain opinions, providing supportive information or reasons
Identify similarities and differences between personal thoughts and beliefs and the personal thoughts and beliefs of others
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Looking at News
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Violence in Sports
- 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 facts and ideas or to persuade about a specific topic or theme
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Looking at News
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Stereotypes
- Prejudice and Body Image
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skill Descriptor:
Use language of harmony and respect.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe helpful, respectful, and equitable language
Identify differences between kind and hurtful language
Use inclusive language that respects gender identity
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
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Media Stereotypes
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Big Idea: Exchanges
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to use appropriate communication conventions.
Achievement Indicators:
Begin to use language specific to topic
Begin to use language specific to audience
Begin to use language specific to situation
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
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
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Mirror Image
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Stereotyping and Genre
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to use social conventions when interacting
Achievement Indicators:
Begin to use conversational courtesies
Use turn-taking when interacting with others
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
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
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, questions, and comments of others
Discuss the reasons for differing opinions or beliefs
Reflect on differing opinions before responding
Reflect on readers’/listeners’/viewers’ questions and comments
Reflect on feedback and responses from those assessing their work to extend learning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
Strand: Reading
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 connect to current learning, enhance understanding, or build background knowledge or prior understandings
Refer to various text forms for knowledge, entertainment, interest, and information
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Police in Media
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Skill Descriptor:
Identify characteristics, forms, features, and types of text.
Achievement Indicators:
Identify text characteristics and key story elements (characters, settings, plot, problem resolution, theme/lesson, etc.), citing relevant details
Identify and distinguish between main idea and supporting details
Discuss how events in narrative text are related to a problem or overall theme
Identify various text forms (narrative, report, instructions, explanation, autobiography, etc.) and their general purpose
Explain text features and their purpose
Locate topics, and obtain and clarify information
Describe elements of an author’s/creator’s style or technique, citing examples from the text
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Comic Book Characters
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looking at News
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Packaging Tricks
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Strand: Representations
Big Idea: Text Analysis
Skill Descriptor:
Select and organize information from multiple sources to support ideas and construct meaning.
Achievement Indicators:
Gather information from a range of reference texts/databases/electronic searches
Identify relevant source content
Use information from multiple sources in an appropriate sequence to support ideas
Use information to persuade audience or form an argument
Identify personal and community needs for information