Media Literacy Grades Kindergarten to 1 for Canadian Students

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 TextsActivity 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 TechniquesActivity 1 Elements of Media Form

Activity 2 Techniques in Media Forms

III. Creating Media TextsActivity 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

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