New Brunswick - English Language Arts 2
Strand: Interactions
Big Idea: Expression
Skill Descriptor:
Express feelings and opinions and give simple descriptions of experiences.
Achievement Indicators:
Use descriptive language to express a feeling, opinion, or emotion
Use simple sentences and/or full thoughts to make a point
MediaSmarts Resources
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at News
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Health
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
Skill Descriptor:
Present simple facts and ideas to peers and teachers.
Achievement Indicators:
Use descriptive language to share simple facts, opinions and ideas about a specific topic
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at News
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- 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
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
Big Idea: Exchanges
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to ask and respond to questions.
Achievement Indicators:
Use question words to create questions about a specific topic or theme
Ask initial and follow-up questions about a specific topic or theme
Respond to questions, answering or citing requested information
MediaSmarts Resources
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Healthy Food Web
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- So Many Choices!
Skill Descriptor:
Explore 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
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at News
- Media Stereotypes
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
Skill Descriptor:
Respond personally to presentations, oral stories, and multi-modal text.
Achievement Indicators:
Use questions, wonderings, and reflections to respond to new information or visual imagery
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- 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
Skill Descriptor:
Explore social conventions when interacting
Achievement Indicators:
Begin to demonstrate consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others
Begin to use words in place of actions to seek a response (conflict resolution, negotiation, material requests, etc.)
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Reception
Skill Descriptor:
Receive the ideas and opinions of others.
Achievement Indicators:
Receive information from others
Reflect while others are speaking
MediaSmarts Resources
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:
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
Ask to view texts and be read to
Seek text linking to prior knowledge or current learnings
Refer to various text forms for knowledge, entertainment, interest, and information
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Looking at News
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- 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
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to identify characteristics, forms, features, and types of text.
Achievement Indicators:
Use text features to gain additional information from the text
Identify simple text forms and describe characteristics and the general purpose of the form
Recognize some basic text features and characteristics (author, illustrator, title, etc.)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Media Stereotypes
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
Strand: Representations
Big Idea: Text Analysis
Skill Descriptor:
Begin to seek information 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