Reading and Viewing

Purposes (Reading and Viewing)

• view and demonstrate comprehension of visual texts (e.g., signs, illustrations, diagrams)

Lessons

Looking at Food Advertising

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Packaging Tricks
 
Eating Under the Rainbow

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
 
Favourite Sports and Athletes

Newspaper Ads
 
TV Stereotypes

Thinking About Television and Movies

Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
 
Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV 
 
Teaching TV: Learning With Television  
 
Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller 
 
Teaching TV: Television Techniques  
 
The Broadcast Project

Strategies

• use strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including:
            – predicting and making connections
            – visualizing
            – figuring out unknown words
            – self-monitoring and self-correcting
            – retelling and beginning to summarize
  
  
• use strategies after reading and viewing to confirm and extend meaning, including:
            – rereading or “re-viewing”
            – discussing with others
            – retelling and beginning to summarize 
            – sketching 
            – writing a response

Lessons

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

Thinking About Television and Movies

Looking at Newspapers

Looking at Food Advertising

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Packaging Tricks
 
Eating Under the Rainbow

Once Upon a Time

TV Stereotypes

Thinking About Television and Movies

Looking at Newspapers

Advertising and Nutrition: Looking at Food Advertising

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence

Teaching TV: Learning With Television

Parent/Teacher 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

 Thinking (Reading and Viewing)

• respond to selections they read or view, by 
            – expressing an opinion supported with
               reasons
            – making text-to-self, text-to-text, and
               text-to-world connections 
   
• read and view to expand knowledge, by
            – predicting and connecting
            – comparing and inferring
            – inquiring and generalizing

Lessons

Advertising and Nutrition: Looking at Food Advertising

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
 
Favourite Sports and Athletes

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

Thinking About Television and Movies

Looking at Newspapers

Once Upon a Time

Newspaper Ads
 
TV Stereotypes

Features (Reading and Viewing)

• recognize and derive meaning from the structures and features of texts, including
            – concepts about print and concepts about
               books
            – elements of stories (e.g., character, setting,
               problem, solution)
            – ‘text features’
            – the vocabulary associated with texts 
               (e.g., pictures, headings, table of contents,
               key facts)

Lessons

Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV 

Teaching TV: Learning With Television  

Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller 

Teaching TV: Television Techniques  

The Broadcast Project
 
Looking at Newspapers

Newspaper Ads - Lesson

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Writing and Representing

• use writing and representing to express personal responses and opinions about experiences or texts
  
• use writing and representing to extend thinking by presenting new understandings in a variety of forms (e.g., comic strip, poem, skit, graphic organizer)

Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence

Favourite Sports and Athletes

TV Stereotypes

Thinking About Television and Movies
 
Looking at Food Advertising