Atlantic Provinces Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 3-4
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, English Language Arts curriculum, Grades 3-4, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.
Each Atlantic Province follows closely the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation Framework for English Language Arts. In this Framework, media literacy is integrated throughout the English Language Arts curriculum under the general learning outcomes of Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
| Speaking and Listening |
| Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically. | Lessons Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Packaging Tricks
Humour on Television
Sheroes and Heroes
Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
Introducing TV Families
Comparing Real Families to TV Families
TV Stereotypes
Prejudice and Body Image
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Newspaper Ads Thinking About Television and Movies 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 |
| Reading and Viewing |
| Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts. - make personal connections to text and describe, share, and discuss their reactions and emotions
| Lessons Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Packaging Tricks
Humour on Television
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
Sheroes and Heroes
Villains, Heroes and Heroines
TV Stereotypes
Prejudice and Body Image
Thinking About Television and Movies
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| Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form and genre. - question information presented in print and visual texts
- use a personal knowledge base as a frame of reference
- identify some different types of print and media texts
- recognize some of their language conventions and text characteristics
- recognize that these conventions and characteristics help them understand what they read and view
- respond critically to texts
- formulate questions as well as understandings
- identify the point of view in a text and demonstrate an awareness of whose voices/positions are and are not being expressed
- discuss the text from the perspective of their own realities and experiences
- identify instances of prejudice, bias, and stereotyping
| Lessons Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Packaging Tricks
Humour on Television
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
Sheroes and Heroes
Villains, Heroes and Heroines
TV Stereotypes
Sheroes and Heroes
Villains, Heroes and Heroines
TV Stereotypes
Prejudice and Body Image
Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Newspaper Ads
Thinking About Television and Movies
Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks
Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses
Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet
Teacher/Parent
MNet Special Initiatives
Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
| Writing and Other Ways of Representing |
| Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes. - create written and media texts using a variety of forms
- experiment with a combination of writing with other media to increase the impact of their presentations
- demonstrate some awareness of audience and purpose
- make choices about form for a specific audience/purpose
- realize that work to be shared with an audience needs editing
Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and media products to enhance their clarity, precision and effectiveness. - experiment with technology in writing and other forms of representing
- use a tape recorder to tape dramatic presentations, readings of published work, and retellings
- with assistance use the Internet to communicate
| Lessons Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Packaging Tricks
Sheroes and Heroes
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
TV Stereotypes
Introducing TV Families
Comparing Real Families to TV Families
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
Prejudice and Body Image
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Newspaper Ads
News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum
Thinking About Television and Movies MNet Special Initiatives
Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
