Outcome Chart - Ontario - Language - Grade 1

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 1 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Understanding Media Texts

By the end of Grade 1, students will:

  • identify the purpose and intended audience of some simple media texts
  • identify overt and implied messages, initially with support and direction, in simple media texts
  • express personal thoughts and feelings about some simple media works
  • describe how different audiences might respond to specific media texts
  • begin to identify, with support and direction, whose point of view is presented in a simple media text and suggest a possible alternative perspective identify, 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

Teacher/Parent Guides

Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques

By the end of Grade 1, students will:

  • identify some of the elements and characteristics of a few simple media forms
  • identify, initially with support and direction, the conventions and techniques used in some familiar media forms

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Creating Media Texts

By the end of Grade 1, 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 some short media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques

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Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies

By the end of Grade 1, students will:

  • identify, initially with support and direction, what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts
  • begin to 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

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