This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Level 4, Literacy Foundations, English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
It is expected that students will:
Reading and Viewing
Specific Expectations
- view and demonstrate an understanding of the meaning conveyed by a variety of visual texts (e.g., illustrations, diagrams, posters, broadcast media, films, videos)
during reading and viewing, construct meaning from texts by- describing emerging ideas and points of view
- using syntactic and context cues to guide and inform their understanding (e.g., use knowledge of grammar, word order, and sentence structure to guide and inform their understanding)
- using text features to locate information and support comprehension (e.g., diagrams, headings, bold and italicized words, table of contents)
- recognizing literary elements (e.g., plot, conflict, character, setting, climax, resolution, theme)
- recognizing literary devices (e.g., irony, hyperbole, simile, metaphor)
- identifying genre and form (e.g., folk tales, legends, autobiography, historical fiction, essay, article, documentary, web page, short story, novel, poem)
- distinguishing between literal definition and figurative meaning and identifying idiomatic expressions (e.g., “that was a piece of cake”)
- making inferences (e.g., about characters’ feelings or story problems)
- drawing conclusions (e.g., make connections between cause and effect)
- skimming for main ideas
- making relevant notes using logical categories (e.g., outlines, mind maps, timelines)
- after reading and viewing, develop their understanding of the meaning conveyed in texts by
- rereading or “re-viewing” to gain deeper understanding
- paraphrasing and summarizing the main ideas
- generating and responding to questions
- using graphic organizers to process, record, and demonstrate synthesis of information
Lessons
- Advertising All Around Us
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Cop Shows
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Introducing TV Families
- Junk Food Jungle
- Looking At Food Advertising
- Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Educational Games