Media Education in Quebec: Cycle Two
In the Quebec elementary English Language Arts curriculum, representing literacy in different media is a core competency. According to the End-of-Cycle-Outcomes for Cycle Two,
The student uses her/his growing repertoire of response strategies by making predictions, asking questions and returning to the text in order to clarify meaning, to unlock the meaning(s)/message(s) of familiar, age-appropriate media texts. With her/his teacher acting as a support and guide to build on and extend the student’s previous experience with the media, s/he has had repeated opportunities to follow a process when responding to the media during whole class and small group discussions and when producing media texts. S/he produced a range of media texts collaboratively with peers, in a supportive and risk-taking environment, for a familiar audience and a clear purpose, using mixed media. These texts reflect a tentative understanding of familiar structures and features of media texts. Ongoing assessment and evaluation of the student’s development is based on a collection of her/his productions over time rather than on one or two pieces of information. In conferences with the teacher to review her/his integrated ELA portfolio, that includes her/his (media) productions, the student begins to actively participate by talking about her/his own reading (i.e. listening or viewing) and production strategies.
Québec Education Program
Preschool and Elementary Education, 2001
The following lessons satisfy many of the ELA competencies and key learnings for Cycle One:
