Media Literacy for Canadian Students Grades Kindergarten to 1

These activities help young learners to understand media texts; understand media forms and techniques; create media texts. The lessons create the opportunity to study forms of media and discuss how it impacts their lives. Once students have acquired the skills to look at media images critically, they will be better equipped to make decisions about the true value of the messages.

 Features:

• Introduction
• Background Information: What is media, media form, media text, and media literacy? and Types of Media
• Teacher Assessment Rubric
• How to Use This Book
• Letter to Parents Media Survey: Media in My Week
• Additional Activities
• Memory Game Cards

 Activities focus on these curriculum expectations:

I. Understanding Media Texts

• Activity 1 Introducing Media Forms
• Activity 2 Purpose and Audience
• Activity 3 Interpreting Messages
• Activity 4 Responding to and Evaluating Texts
• Activity 5 Audience Response
• Activity 6 Point of View
• Activity 7 Media Purposes

II. Understanding Media Forms and Techniques

• Activity 1 Elements of Media Form
• Activity 2 Techniques in Media Forms

III. Creating Media Texts

• Activity 1 Specific Purpose and Audience
• Activity 2 Appropriate Forms of Media Texts
• Activity 3 Making a Media Text
• Activity 4 Reflecting on a Media Text

80 pages.