Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts Grade 1
Speaking and Listening
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
Specific Expectations
- describe personal experiences orally.
- Listen to a variety of situations for different purposes
- Ask questions to seek more information
- Respond to questions to clarify information
1.7 reflect upon a variety of oral texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
Specific Expectations
2.1 participate in conversations
2.2 present orally
2.3. respond personally to information, ideas, and opinions
2.4 respond critically to information, ideas, and opinions
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Internet Time Capsule
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
Overall Expectations
GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
3.1 demonstrate social conventions
3.2 show an understanding of how word choice affects the feelings of others
3.3 use verbal and non-verbal cues suitable for specific situations, audiences, and purposes
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Lessons
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 texts.
Specific Expectations
4.1 select a variety of text types, forms, and genres appropriate for different purposes
4.2 use text features before, during, and after reading to help to construct meaning
4.3 use strategies to make sense of texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- So Many Choices!
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting &Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
Overall Expectations
GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
Specific Expectations
5.1 formulate questions that lead to inquiry
5.2 use information from a variety of sources to seek answers to questions
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Lessons
Overall Expectations
GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.
Specific Expectations
6.1 make connections from text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
6.2 express opinions about a variety of texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting &Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
Overall Expectations
GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
Specific Expectations
7.1 demonstrate an understanding that all texts have intended messages
7.2 examine texts for intended purposes and audiences
7.3 explore alternative perspectives to texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting &Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
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.
Specific Expectations
8.1 express feelings and imaginative ideas through writing and representing
8.2 reflect on learning through writing and representing.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
Overall Expectations
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
9.1 use various text types and forms in writing and representations
9.2 understand that texts are created for a purpose and an audience
9.3 create text types and forms for specific purposes and audiences
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
Overall Expectations
GCO 10: Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Specific Expectations
10.1 use a variety of strategies to write and represent effectively
Lessons