Outcome Chart - Ontario - Language 2

This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Ontario, Grade 2 English Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Understanding Media Texts

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

  • identify the purpose and intended audience of some simple media texts
  • identify overt and implied messages in simple media texts
  • express personal thoughts and feelings about some simple media works and explain their responses
  • describe how different audiences might respond to specific media texts
  • identify, initially with support and direction, whose point of view is presented in a simple media text and suggest how the text might change if a different point of view were used
  • identify, initially with support and direction, who makes some of the simple media texts with which they are familiar, and why those texts are produced

MediaSmarts Resources

Advertising

Body Image

Internet

Stereotyping

Television

Educational Game

Teacher/Parent Guides

Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

  • identify some of the elements and characteristics of selected media forms
  • identify the conventions and techniques used in some familiar media forms

MediaSmarts Resources

Creating Media Texts

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

  • identify the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create
  • identify an appropriate form to suit the purpose and audience for a media text they plan to create
  • identify conventions and techniques appropriate to the form chosen for a media text they plan to create
  • produce media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques

MediaSmarts Resources

Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

  • identify, initially with support and direction, what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts
  • explain, initially with support and direction, how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them to make sense of and produce media texts

MediaSmarts Resources