Competency 1: To Read and Listen to Literary, Popular and Information-Based Texts

• Uses prior knowledge and personal experience of the content of a text
• Use of pictures and other graphic representations to interpret texts
• Questions and talk with others to clarify and enrich interpretations
• Makes predictions, confirmations and inferences, when prompted by the teacher
• Develops a personal response process in the context of a community of readers through:
  • Discussion of responses with others individually, on small groups and in the whole class
  • Comparing own responses with those of others at a beginner's level
• Moves beyond the initial response through:
  • Responses to texts in a variety of ways that include talking, writing, the Arts, Media
  • Early attempts to explain own views of a text 

Competency 3: To Represent Her/His Literacy in Different Media

• Uses the familiar images, signs, symbols and logos in his/her environment:
• Makes meaning of a media text by:
  • brainstorming
  • drawing on prior knowledge
  • sharing responses with peers
  • making connections to own experiences
• Understands that texts are social and cultural products through:
  • Own response and responses of others:
    • Compares own response with those of peers in order to support and enrich own understanding
    • Uses photographs:
      • For storytelling, with guidance

Production Process

• Pre-Production:
  • Selection from the following text types (NOTE: The texts listed below are the same as those that are referred to throughout the Production Process):
    • Posters and signs, charts, graphs and time lines, comic strips, computer-assisted graphic reproductions, models from instruction booklets, surveys of viewing habits, magazine for peers
    • Exploratory planning in a risk-taking environment that promotes trial and error and includes:
      • Discussion about purpose, audience and context, in collaboration with teacher and peers
• Production:
  • Production of the texts listed above in groups with peers that:
    • Incorporate images, symbols, signs, logos and/or words to communicate meaning or message
    • Incorporate appropriate communication strategies and resources given the text type and the context
    • Function as information-based text type:
      • Follows an appropriate, prescribed procedure to locate, organize and present information, with guidance, on a familiar topic
• Post Production:
  • In collaboration with group members:
    • Self-evaluation of text produced  

Competency 4: To Use Language to Communicate and Learn

Essential Knowledges:

• Shares information with peers and teacher
• Talks about responses and point of view with peers and teacher
• Asks and answers questions from peers and teacher
• Talks through new ideas and information
  • Participating in collaborative reading, writing, viewing, visually representing, listening and talking activities:
    • Brainstorming