Strand: Uqausiliriniq
Overall Expectations:
1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.
Specific Expectations:
1.2.1 Clarify new understandings of connections
1.2.2 Explore personal and others’ opinions and understandings
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Introducing TV Families
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- TV Stereotypes
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.
2. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts, through a process.
3. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process.
4. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process.
5. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society.
2.1.1 Use prior knowledge to make connections between self and texts (oral, print, and other media)
2.1.2 Discuss anticipated meaning of oral, print, and other media texts; use comprehension strategies to construct, confirm, revise, and explain understanding
2.1.6 Integrate knowledge of structural analysis, word meaning, phonics, and sight vocabulary with context cues to construct and confirm meaning
2.1.7 Integrate context cues and purpose, phonics, sight vocabulary, word meaning, and structural analysis to construct and confirm meaning
2.2.1 Explore a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
2.2.2 Respond to oral, print, and other media texts creatively and critically
2.2.3 Identify similarities and differences between self and portrayals in texts (oral, print, and other media) from other communities
2.3.1 Recognize differences among a variety of forms and genres of texts (oral, print, and other media); talk about audience/purpose in relation to form/genre
2.3.2 Listen to, read, and view to identify the techniques and elements of texts (oral, print, and other media)
2.3.3 Talk about authors’ use of voice, vocabulary, and techniques in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Healthy Food Web
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
3. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process.
Specific Expectations:
3.1.1 Record personal knowledge of a topic to identify information needs in own and group inquiry
3.1.2 Ask questions to understand a topic and identify information needs in own and group inquiry
3.1.3 Recall and follow directions for accessing and gathering information for own and group inquiry
3.2.1 Select relevant information from a variety of sources to answer inquiry or research questions
3.2.2 Match information to inquiry or research focus
3.2.3 Use the specific library organizational system, including visual and auditory cues, to locate information and ideas
3.2.4 Make connections between prior knowledge, ideas, information, and text features
3.3.1 Categorize related information and ideas using a variety of strategies
3.3.2 Record key facts and ideas in own words; identify titles and authors of sources
3.3.3 Examine gathered information to decide what information to share or omit
3.3.4 Ask questions to reflect on inquiry or research experiences
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing Media Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Healthy Food Web
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
4. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process.
Specific Expectations:
4.1.1 Generate and focus ideas on a topic using a variety of strategies
4.1.2 Prepare to create by exploring the connections between choice of forms, identified audience, and purpose
4.1.3 Create original texts (oral, print, and other media)
4.2.1 Participate in focussed conversations about own and others’ texts and representations (oral, print, and other media)
4.2.2 Clarify and extend ideas by adding some details and/or information
4.2.4 Experiment with language to create desired effect in oral, print, and other media texts
4.4.1 Experiment with techniques used to enhance presentations of texts (oral, print, and other media)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction - Lesson
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
5. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society.
Specific Expectations:
5.1.1 Work in a variety of partnerships and groups to follow preestablished group processes by responding to others
5.1.2 Adjust listening, viewing, and speaking behaviours according to the situation
5.2.1 Tell, draw, and write about self, family, and community
5.2.2 Explore personal understanding of self and others
5.2.3 Plan and contribute to celebrations in the classroom community
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television Techniques - Lesson
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson