New Brunswick - English Language Arts K
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 new words to describe everyday events and personal experiences
Use simple sentences and/or full thoughts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- 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 and ideas about a specific topic
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- 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 questions about a specific topic or theme
Respond to questions, answering or citing requested information
MediaSmarts Resources
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
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- 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: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- 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
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?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- 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:
Begin to identify characteristics, forms, features, and types of text.
Achievement Indicators:
Talk about information in non-fiction texts and elements of a story from pictures or read-alouds
Use basic text features to gain obvious information
Recognize some simple text forms (fiction, non-fiction, visual, oral text, videos, poems, posters, letters, true and imaginary texts, etc.)
Recognize basic text features and characteristics (author, illustrator, title, etc.)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- 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 to support ideas
Gather information to answer a question or solve a problem
Use information to form a simple argument