This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, English Language Arts curriculum, Grades 1-2, 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. - engage in informal oral presentations and
- respond to a variety of oral presentations and other texts
| 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 |
| Reading and Viewing |
| Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media and visual texts. | Lessons Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
Eating Under the Rainbow
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| Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts. - respond personally to texts in a variety of ways
| Lessons Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
Once Upon a Time
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen 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
MNet Special Initiatives
Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three Little CyberPigs |
| Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form and genre. | Lessons Once Upon a Time
TV Stereotypes
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Teacher/Parent Guides Talking to Kids about Racial Stereotypes
Talking to Kids about Gender Stereotypes
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| 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. - use a variety of familiar text forms and other media (messages, letters, lists, recounts, stories, poems, records of observations, role-plays, Readers Theatre)
- demonstrate some awareness of audience and purpose
- choose particular forms for specific audiences and purposes
- 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. - with assistance, experiment with technology in writing and other forms of representing
- use a tape recorder to record choral readings, dramatizations, retellings, or finished pieces of writing
- create illustrations/drawings with a computer graphics/drawing program
- select, organize, and combine, with assistance, relevant information to construct and communicate meaning
| Lessons Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
Eating Under the Rainbow
Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Introducing TV Families
Once Upon a Time
Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks Looking at Newspapers: Introduction |
