Lesson: Can You Spot the Ad?

Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications

A2. Digital Media Literacy

A2.2 Online Safety, Well-Being, and Etiquette

demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate online environments safely, manage their privacy, and interact in a way that supports their well-being and that of others, including seeking appropriate permission

A2.4 Forms, Conventions and Techniques

demonstrate an understanding of the forms, conventions, and techniques of digital and media texts, and apply this understanding when analyzing texts

A2.5 Media, Audience, and Production

demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of a text, the audience, and the creator

A3. Applications, Connections and Contributions

A3.1 Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning

apply the knowledge and skills developed in this grade to support learning in various subject areas and identify some ways this learning can be used in everyday life

Strand C: Composition (Understanding and Responding to Texts)

C1 Knowledge About Texts

C1.1 Using Foundational Knowledge and Skills to Comprehend Texts

Grade 1: read and comprehend short, simple texts, using knowledge of words, grammar, cohesive ties, sentence structures, and background knowledge

Grade 2: read and comprehend short texts, using knowledge of words, grammar, cohesive ties, sentence structures, and background knowledge

Grade 3: read and comprehend various texts, using knowledge of words, grammar, cohesive ties, sentence structures, and background

C1.2 Text Forms and Genres

Grade 1: identify simple literary and informational text forms and their associated genres

Grades 2-3: identify and describe some characteristics of literary and informational text forms and their associated genres

 C1.4 Visual Elements of Texts

Grade 1: demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between simple illustrations, images, and graphics and the text

Grade 2: identify ways in which images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate, and contribute to meaning in a variety of texts

Grade 3: describe ways in which images, graphics, and visual design are used in a given text, and demonstrate an understanding of their purpose and connection to the content of the text

C2 Comprehension Strategies

C2.1 Prereading: Activating Prior Knowledge

Grade 1: activate prior knowledge, including knowledge gained from personal and text experiences, that they can use to understand the topics of new texts

Grade 2: activate prior knowledge, including knowledge gained from personal and text experiences, that they can use to make connections and understand the topic and form of new texts

Grade 3: activate prior knowledge, including knowledge gained from personal and text experiences, that they can use to make connections and understand the topic and form

C2.3 Monitoring of Understanding: Making and Confirming Predictions

Grade 1:  make predictions using background knowledge, text features, and evidence from the text

Grade 2: make predictions using background knowledge, text features, and evidence from the text

Grade 3: make predictions using background knowledge, text features, and evidence from the text, and adjust their understanding based on new information

C2.4 Monitoring of Understanding: Ongoing Comprehension Check

Grades 1-2: use strategies such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, to monitor their understanding of simple texts

Grade 3: use strategies such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, to monitor and confirm their understanding of various texts

C2.5 Monitoring of Understanding: Making Connections

Grade 1:  identify connections between ideas expressed in simple texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other familiar texts, and the world around them

Grade 2:  identify connections between ideas expressed in simple texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other familiar texts, and the world around them

Grade 3:  identify connections between ideas expressed in texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other texts, and the world around them

C2.6 Summarizing: Identifying Relevant information and Drawing Conclusions

Grade 1: identify important information in a simple text, including the main idea

Grade 2:  identify the main idea in a simple text, and relate important details in sequence

Grade 3: identify the main idea in a simple text, and relate important details in sequence

C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.2 Making Inferences

Grades 1-2:  make simple inferences, using stated and implied information and ideas, to understand simple texts

Grade 3: make inferences using stated and implied information and ideas to understand texts

C3.5 Perspectives within Texts

Grade 1:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in a text, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience

Grade 2:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in a text, providing evidence, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience

Grade 3:  identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in texts, providing evidence, and explain how these perspectives could influence an audience

Strand D: Composition (Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts)

D1.1 Purpose and Audience

Grade 1: identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various simple texts they plan to create

Grade 2:  identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various texts they plan to create

Grade 3: identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various texts they plan to create, and describe how the chosen text form and genre will help communicate their intended meaning

D1.2 Developing Ideas

Grade 1: generate ideas about given and chosen topics, using simple strategies and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences, and learning from other subject areas

Grade 2: generate and develop ideas about given and chosen topics, using simple strategies, and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences, and learning from other subject areas

Grade 3: generate and develop ideas about given and chosen topics, using various strategies, and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences, and learning from other subject areas

D1.5 Reflecting on Learning

Grades 1-2: identify the strategies that helped them develop ideas for texts

Grade 3: identify the strategies that helped them develop ideas for texts and organize content

D2 Creating Texts

D2.1 Producing Drafts

Grade 1: draft short, simple texts of various forms and genres, including personal narratives, persuasive texts, and procedural texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies

Grade 2: draft short texts of various forms and genres, including personal narratives, persuasive texts, and procedural texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies

Grade 3: draft short texts of various forms and genres, including narrative, persuasive, and informational texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies