Develop Reading and Viewing Abilities

Learning Reading (and Viewing) and Extending Thinking

• demonstrate awareness of the connection between reading, writing, and oral language
  
• respond to literature through a variety of activities (e.g., role playing, art, music, choral reading, talking)

Lessons

Favourite Sports and Athletes
 
Looking at Food Advertising

Strategies for Learning to Read and View

• engage in discussions and create representations after reading and viewing to reflect on the text to confirm meaning

Lessons

Favorite Sports and Athletes

Looking at Food Advertising

Packaging Tricks

The Broadcast Project

 

Developing Writing and Representing Abilities

Learning Writing (and Representing) and Extending Thinking

• create simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning
  
• recognize that writing can be “talk written down” and that print carries a constant message

Lessons

Looking at Food Advertising

Packaging Tricks

The Broadcast Project

Strategies for Learning to Write and Represent

• engage in discussions before writing and representing to generate ideas when responding to text and classroom experiences (e.g., observing, listening, using the other senses, drawing, brainstorming, listing, webbing, partner-talk)
  
• express meaning during writing and representing by using invented spelling and copying existing words/representations
  
• engage in discussions after writing or representing about the experience of writing or representing and share work with others

Lessons

Favorite Sports and Athletes

Looking at Food Advertising

Packaging Tricks

The Broadcast Project

The following Teacher/Parent Guides can be helpful in generating class discussion:

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