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Manitoba Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 2 This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 2 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.
It is expected that students will:
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences |
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Discover and Explore
- make and talk about personal observations
- express preferences for a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Clarify and Extend
- connect new information, ideas and experiences with prior knowledge and experiences
- explain new experiences and understanding
- demonstrate curiosity about ideas and observations to make sense of experiences
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Lessons
Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
Eating Under the Rainbow
Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
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
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts |
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Use Strategies and Cues
- make connections between texts, prior knowledge and personal experiences
- explain anticipated meaning, recognize relationships, and draw conclusions; self-correct understanding using a variety of strategies
- use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning
Respond to Texts
- engage in a variety of shared and independent listening, reading, and viewing experiences, choosing texts from a variety of genres and cultural traditions
- discuss the experiences and traditions of various communities and cultures portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- identify and express the feelings of people in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques
- recognize that information and ideas can be expressed in a variety of forms of texts
- identify the main characters and discuss in own words the beginning, middle and end of a variety of texts
Create Original Text [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories…]
- communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and technique
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Lessons
Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Favourite Sports and Athletes: An Introduction to Sports Media
Eating Under the Rainbow
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Prejudice and Body Image
Once Upon a Time
TV Stereotypes
Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks
Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses
Newspaper Ads
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Newspaper Ads
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
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information |
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Select and Process
- make connections between prior knowledge, ideas, information, and oral, visual and written text features [such as table of contents, key words, captions…]
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Lessons
Facing TV Violence: Counting and Discussion Violence on the Screen
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
Prejudice and Body Image
Once Upon a Time
TV Stereotypes
Teaching TV: Enjoying Television
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
Newspaper Ads
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listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication |
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Generate and Focus
- contribute ideas from personal experiences for oral, written and visual text
- use a variety of forms [such as simple reports, illustrations, role-plays of characters and situations, string games…] for particular audiences and purposes
- order ideas to create a beginning, middle, and end in own oral, written, and visual texts
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Lessons
Comparing Real Families to TV Families
Once Upon a Time
TV Stereotypes
Packaging Tricks
Looking at Food Advertising
Co-Co’s Adversmarts
Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
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listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community |
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Develop and Celebrate Community
- talk about similarities among stories from oral, print and other media texts from various communities
- connect situations portrayed in oral, print and other media texts to personal experiences
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Lessons
Comparing Real Families to TV Families
Once Upon a Time
TV Stereotypes
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 |
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