Reading and Viewing
Purposes (Reading and Viewing) view and demonstrate understanding that visual texts are sources of information	Lessons Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media Eating Under the Rainbow Co-Co’s Adversmarts Packaging Tricks Looking at Food Advertising   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 (Reading and Viewing) use some comprehension and word-decoding 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 and retelling   use strategies after reading and viewing to confirm and extend meaning, including rereading or “re-viewing”, discussing with others, retelling, sketching and writing a response identify explicit connections between works that they have read, viewed, or heard	Lessons Favorite Sports and Athletes Eating Under the Rainbow Co-Co’s Adversmarts Looking at Food Advertising Packaging Tricks Teaching TV: Enjoying Television The Broadcast Project 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
Thinking (Reading and Viewing) and Features (Reading and Viewing) respond to selections they read or view, by expressing an opinion supported with a reason and 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 explaining   recognize and derive meaning from the structures and features of texts, including: concepts about print and concepts about books, elements of stories (e.g., beginning, middle, end; character, setting, events), ‘text features’ and the vocabulary needed to talk about texts (e.g., book, author, title, illustrator, pictures)	Lessons Favourite Sports and Athletes Eating Under the Rainbow Looking at Food Advertising Co-Co’s Adversmarts Packaging Tricks   Teaching TV: Enjoying Television Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV  Teaching TV: Learning With Television   Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller  The Broadcast Project 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
Writing and Representing
Purposes (Writing and Representing) create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring: ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic developing sentence fluency by using simple sentences, patterns, labels, and captions developing word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail developing voice by showing how they think and feel about a topic an organization that follows a form modelled by the teacher, such as a list, web, chart, cluster, or other graphic organizer	Lessons Favourite Sports and Athletes Eating Under the Rainbow Looking at Food Advertising Co-Co’s Adversmarts Packaging Tricks Teaching TV: Enjoying Television   Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV    Teaching TV: Learning With Television   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
Strategies (Writing and Representing) use strategies during writing and representing to express thoughts in written and visual form (e.g., looking at picture books and student writing samples as models)	Lessons Looking at Food Advertising Co-Co’s Adversmarts Once Upon a Time Favorite Sports and Athletes Managing Superhero Play Packaging Tricks Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller    The Broadcast Project 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