Alberta | English Language Arts Kindergarten

Alberta Outcome Chart: English Language Arts - Kindergarten

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Kindergarten 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

share personal experiences that are clearly related to oral, print and other media texts
talk about favorite oral, print and other media texts

Clarify and Extend

connect related ideas and information
express interest in new ideas and experiences

Lessons

Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media

Eating Under the Rainbow

Looking at Food Advertising

Teacher/Parent Guides

Managing Superhero Play

Talking to Kids about Advertising

Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes

Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes

Talking to Kids about the News

Talking to Kids about Media Violence

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

connect oral language with print and pictures
understand that stories, information and personal experiences can be recorded in pictures and print and can be listened to, read or viewed
expect print and pictures to have meaning and to be related to each other in print and other media texts

Respond to Texts

participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres such as picture books, fairy tales, rhymes, stories, photographs, illustrations and video programs
relate aspects of oral, print and other media texts to personal feelings and experiences
talk about and represent the actions of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
talk about experiences similar or related to those in oral, print and other media texts

Understand Forms and Techniques

experience a variety of oral, print and other media texts
identify the main characters in a variety of oral, print and other media texts

Create Original Text

contribute ideas and answer questions related to experiences and familiar oral, print and other media texts

Lessons

Looking at Food Advertising

Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media

Eating Under the Rainbow

listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information

Select and Process

ask questions to make sense of information

Lessons

Favorite Sports and Athletes

To encourage children to discuss their feelings about television violence:

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

To encourage children to explore their feelings about food advertisements:

Looking at Food Advertising

listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others

Respect Others and Strengthen Community

explore personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, print and other media texts
explore oral, print and other media texts from various communities

Lessons

Once Upon a Time