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Alberta Outcome Chart: English Language Arts - Grade 6
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 6 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site. It is expected that students will: | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences | | Discover and Explore - read, write, represent and talk to explore and explain connections between prior knowledge and new information in oral, print and other media texts
- engage in exploratory communication to share personal responses and develop own interpretations
| Lessons You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!
Taking Charge of TV Violence
Violence in Sports
The Anatomy of Cool
The Constructed World of TV Families
Reporter for a Day | | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts | | Use Strategies and Cues - combine personal experiences and the knowledge and skills gained through previous experiences with oral, print and other media texts to understand new ideas and information
- apply knowledge of organizational structures of oral, print and other media texts to assist with constructing and confirming meaning
- identify and use the structural elements of texts, such as magazines, newspapers, newscasts and news features, to access and comprehend ideas and information
Respond to Texts - experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- explain own point of view about oral, print and other media texts
- make connections between own life and characters and ideas in oral, print and other media texts
- discuss common topics or themes in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- discuss the author's, illustrator's, storyteller's or filmmaker's intention or purpose
- observe and discuss aspects of human nature revealed in oral, print, and other media texts, and relate them to those encountered in the community
- comment on the credibility of characters and events in oral, print and other media texts, using evidence from personal experiences and the texts
- discuss how detail is used to enhance character, setting, action and mood in oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques - identify key characteristics of a variety of forms or genres of oral, print and other media texts
- discuss the differences between print and other media versions of the same texts
- explore techniques, such as visual imagery, sound, flashback and voice inflection, in oral, print and other media texts
- identify strategies that presenters use in media texts to influence audiences
| Lessons What's in a Word?
Put Downs
The Anatomy of Cool
Images of Learning: Elementary
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6
Freedom to Smoke
Tobacco Labels
Video Production of a Newscast
Writing a Newspaper Article
The Broadcast Project
How to Analyze the News
Violence in Sports
Elections and the Media
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!
Looks Good Enough to Eat
Comic Book Characters
The Way We Look
Female Action Heroes
Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights Teaching TV: Learning With Television
Teaching TV - Film Production: Who Does What?
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
"He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
Teachable Moments
Bad Ads Essay Writing Contest | | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information | | Plan and Focus - distinguish among facts, supported inferences and opinions
| Lessons What's in a Word?
Scientific Detectives
Do You Believe This Camel?
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6
Freedom to Smoke
The True Story
Truth or Money
Elections and the Media
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MNet Special Initiatives
Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
| | listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others | | Respect Others and Strengthen Community - compare personal challenges and situations encountered in daily life with those experiences of people or characters in other times, places and cultures portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- share and discuss ideas and experiences that contribute to different responses to oral, print and other media texts
- identify ways in which oral, print and other media texts from diverse cultures and communities explore similar ideas
| Lessons A Day in the Life
Female Action Heroes
Images of Learning: Elementary
Media Kids
Violence in Sports
What's in a Word?
Put Downs
The Anatomy of Cool
The Constructed World of TV Families
Comic Book Characters
Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
The Way We Look |
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