listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

Discover and Explore

• talk about personal experiences and familiar events
• explain why an oral, print or other media text is a personal favorite

Clarify and Extend

• connect new experience and information with prior knowledge describe new experiences and ideas ask questions to make sense of experiences

Lessons

Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media

Eating Under the Rainbow

Looking at Food Advertising

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

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

• make connections between texts, prior knowledge, and personal experiences
• ask questions to anticipate meaning and use a variety of strategies to confirm understanding
• use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning

Respond to Texts

• participate in shared listening, reading and viewing experiences, using texts from a variety of genres and cultural traditions
• share personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, print, and other media texts
• share feelings and moods evoked by a variety of oral, print and other media texts

Understand Forms and Techniques

• recognize a variety of forms of texts
• relate or represent the beginning, middle and end of a variety of texts

Create Original Text [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories…]

• communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and technique

Lessons

Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media

Eating Under the Rainbow

Looking at Food Advertising

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Once Upon a Time

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 manage ideas and information

Select and Process

• make and check predictions using prior knowledge and oral, visual and written text features [such as illustrations, titles, opening shots in video programs, electronic texts…] to understand information

Lessons

Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Eating Under the Rainbow

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Packaging Tricks

listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

Generate and Focus

• contribute ideas from personal experiences for oral, written and visual text
• share ideas and experiences using forms for particular audiences
• organize print and pictures to express ideas and tell stories

Lessons

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

Once Upon a Time

Eating Under the Rainbow

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community

Develop and Celebrate Community

• listen to stories from oral, print and other media texts from various communitie
• relate aspects of stories and characters from oral, print and other media texts to personal feelings and experiences

Lessons

Once Upon a Time

TV Stereotypes

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

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