Ontario - Language 1
Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications
Overall Expectations:
Throughout this course, in connection with the learning in strands B to D, students will:
A1. Transferable Skills
demonstrate an understanding of how the seven transferable skills (critical thinking and problem solving; innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship; self-directed learning; collaboration; communication; global citizenship and sustainability; and digital literacy) are used in various language and literacy contexts
Specific Expectations:
A1.1 Receptive and Expressive Communication
identify how transferable skills can be used to support communication in various cultural, social, linguistic, and domain-specific contexts, and apply them when reading, listening to, viewing, and creating texts of various forms
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Break the Fake: What's Real Online?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Healthy Food Web
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looking at News
- Media Stereotypes
- Once Upon a Time
- Packaging Tricks
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
A1.2 Student Agency and Engagement
demonstrate an understanding of how transferable skills help them to express their voice and be engaged in their learning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Media Stereotypes
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
- What do Halloween costumes say?
demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments, use digital and media tools to construct knowledge, and demonstrate learning as critical consumers and creators of media
Specific Expectations:
A2.1 Digital Citizenship
demonstrate an understanding of their rights and responsibilities when interacting online with appropriate permission, and make decisions that contribute positively to the development of their digital identity and those of their communities
MediaSmarts Resources
- Internet Time Capsule
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Rules of the Game
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Wacky Media Songs: Community Engagement
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
A2.2 Online Safety, Well-Being, and Etiquette
demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate online environments safely, manage their privacy, and interact in a way that supports their well-being and that of others, including seeking appropriate permission
MediaSmarts Resources
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Rules of the Game
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
A2.3 Research and Information Literacy
gather, evaluate, and use information, considering various perspectives, to construct knowledge and demonstrate learning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Break the Fake: What's Real Online?
- So Many Choices!
- Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying
A2.4 Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
demonstrate an understanding of the forms, conventions, and techniques of digital and media texts, and apply this understanding when analyzing texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looking at News
- Once Upon a Time
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
A2.5 Media, Audience, and Production
demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of a text, the audience, and the creator
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- What do Halloween costumes say?
A2.6 Innovation and Design
use digital and media tools to support stages of the design process and to develop creative solutions to authentic, real-world problems
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- What do Halloween costumes say?
A2.7 Community and Cultural Awareness
communicate and collaborate with various communities in a safe, respectful, responsible, and inclusive manner when using online platforms and environments, including digital and media tools, and demonstrate cultural awareness with members of the community
MediaSmarts Resources
- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
A3. Applications, Connections, and Contributions
apply language and literacy skills in cross-curricular and integrated learning, and demonstrate an understanding of, and make connections to, diverse voices, experiences, perspectives, histories, and contributions, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, groups, and nations
Specific Expectations:
A3.1 Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning
apply the knowledge and skills developed in this grade to support learning in various subject areas and identify some ways this learning can be used in everyday life
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- What do Halloween costumes say?
A3.2 Identity and Community
demonstrate an understanding of the contributions, lived experiences, and perspectives of a diversity of individuals and communities, including those in Canada, by exploring the concepts of identity, self, and sense of belonging in culturally responsive and relevant texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Introducing TV Families
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Media Stereotypes
Strand C: Comprehension (Understanding and Responding to Texts)
C1. Knowledge about texts
apply foundational knowledge and skills to understand a variety of texts, including digital and media texts, by creators with diverse identities, perspectives, and experience, and demonstrate an understanding of the patterns, features, and elements of style associated with various text forms and genres
C1.2 Text Forms and Genres
identify simple literary and informational text forms and their associated genres
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
C1.3 Text Patterns and Features
identify some text patterns, such as sequencing and chronological order, and text features, including illustrations, symbols, and titles, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
C1.4 Visual Elements of Texts
demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between simple illustrations, images, and graphics and the text
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
C1.5 Elements of Style
identify some simple elements of style in texts, including voice, word choice, word patterns, and sentence structure, and describe how they help communicate meaning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
C1.6 Point of View
identify the narrator’s point of view in a variety of texts, and suggest an alternative point of view to tell the story
MediaSmarts Resources
C3. Critical Thinking in Literacy
apply critical thinking skills to deepen understanding of texts, and analyze how various perspectives and topics are communicated and addressed in a variety of texts, including digital, media, and cultural texts
Specific Expectations:
C3.1 Literary Devices
identify simple literary devices, including rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and describe how they help communicate meaning
MediaSmarts Resources
C3.2 Making Inferences
make simple inferences, using stated and implied information and ideas, to understand simple texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to 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
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
C3.3 Analyzing Texts
analyze simple texts, including literary and informational texts, by identifying and sequencing important information and events
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Introducing TV Families
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
C3.5 Analyzing Cultural Elements of Texts
identify some cultural elements represented in various texts, including symbols and values, and explain how these elements contribute to the meaning
MediaSmarts Resources
C3.5 Perspectives Within Texts
identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated by a text, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience
MediaSmarts Resources
C3.6 Analysis and Response
express personal thoughts and feelings about ideas presented in texts, such as ideas about diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
MediaSmarts Resources
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- What do Halloween costumes say?
Strand D: Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts
D1 Developing Ideas and Organizing Content
plan, develop ideas, gather information, and organize content for creating texts of various forms, including digital and media texts, on a variety of topics
Specific Expectations:
D1.1 Purpose and Audience
identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various simple texts they plan to create
MediaSmarts Resources
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- What do Halloween costumes say?
D1.2 Developing Ideas
generate ideas about given and chosen topics, using simple strategies and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences, and learning from other subject areas
MediaSmarts Resources
D1.3 Research
gather information and content relevant to a topic, using a single source
MediaSmarts Resources
D1.4 Organizing Content
sort and sequence ideas and information, taking into account the text form and genre to be used
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Teaching Media: Critically Evaluating Media
- Teaching Media: Media Techniques
D2 Creating Texts
apply knowledge and understanding of various text forms and genres to create, revise, edit, and proofread their own texts, using a variety of media, tools, and/or strategies, and reflect critically on created texts
Specific Expectations:
D2.1 Producing Drafts
draft short, simple texts of various forms and genres, including personal narratives, persuasive texts, and procedural texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching Media: Learning With Media
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
- What do Halloween costumes say?
D2.3 Voice
demonstrate a personal voice in their texts, with a focus on using words that express their thoughts, feelings, and opinions about the topic
MediaSmarts Resources
D2.4 Point of View
identify the point of view, including first person, used in their texts
MediaSmarts Resources
D3 Publishing, Presenting and Reflecting
select suitable and effective media, techniques, and tools to publish and present final texts, and critically analyze how well the texts address various topics
Specific Expectations:
D3.1 Producing Final Texts
produce final texts, using simple techniques, to achieve the intended effect
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Packaging Tricks
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Teaching Media: The Construction Crew
- Teaching Media: The Frame as a Story Teller
- Teaching Media: Thinking About Media
D3.2 Publishing and Presenting Texts
present the texts they have created using appropriate strategies, including by reading aloud with expression