British Columbia Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 2, English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.
It is expected that students will:
| 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
Advertising and Nutrition: Looking at Food Advertising
Advertising and Nutrition: Packaging Tricks
Sheroes and Heroes
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
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| 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 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
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| 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
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| Writing and Representing |
Strategies (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)
| Lessons 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
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Packaging Tricks
Eating Under the Rainbow
Once Upon a Time
Prejudice and Body Image
Comparing Real Families to TV Families
Classroom Activities
Cereal and Junk Food Advertising
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Last updated August 2008.
