Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts Grade 6
Speaking and Listening
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be expected
- to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- contribute to and respond constructively in conversation, small group and whole group discussion
- detect examples of prejudice, stereotyping or bias in oral language, recognize their negative effect on individuals and cultures and attempt to use bias-free language
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Interactive Resources
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)
Reading and Viewing
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual text.
GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- use and integrate the various cueing systems and a variety of strategies with increasing independence to construct meaning
- reflect on and discuss their own processes and strategies in reading and viewing
- use a range of reference texts and a data base or electronic search to facilitate the selection process
- recognize that facts can be presented to suit an author’s purpose and point of view
- consider information from alternative perspectives
- identify the conventions and structure of a variety of print and media texts and genres
- make connections with the purpose of each text or genre
- respond critically to texts
- apply a growing range of strategies to analyze and evaluate a text
- demonstrate growing awareness that all texts reflect a purpose and a perspective
- compare alternate points of view
- analyze the impact of language used in texts
- examine how responses to texts can affect social change
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cop Shows
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Mirror Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Interactive Resources
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)
Writing and Representing
Overall Expectations
GCO 8: Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.
GCO 9: Students will be expected
- to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- explore ways to develop ideas
- reflect on themselves as text creators
- create written and media texts using an increasing variety of forms
- assess the influence that audience and purpose have during the creation of texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Girls and Boys on Television
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Images of Learning
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Stereotypes
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Violence in Sports
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)