Lesson: Special Effects

Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications

A2. Digital Media Literacy

A2.3 Research and Information Literacy

gather, evaluate, and use information, considering various perspectives, to construct knowledge and demonstrate learning

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

A2.6 Innovation and Design

use digital and media tools to support stages of the design process and to develop creative solutions to authentic, real-world problems

A2.7 Community and Cultural Awareness

communicate and collaborate with various communities in a safe, respectful, responsible, and inclusive manner when using online platforms and environments, including digital and media tools, and demonstrate cultural awareness with members of the community

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

A3.2 Identity and Community

demonstrate an understanding of the contributions, lived experiences, and perspectives of a diversity of individuals and communities, including those in Canada, by exploring the concepts of identity, self, and sense of belonging in culturally responsive and relevant texts

Strand C: Composition (Understanding and Responding to Texts)

C1 Knowledge About Texts

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

C1.5 Elements of Style

Grade 1: identify some simple elements of style in texts, including voice, word choice, word patterns, and sentence structure, and describe how they help communicate meaning

Grade 2:  identify some simple elements of style in texts, including voice, word choice, word patterns, and sentence structure, and explain how they help communicate meaning

Grade 3: identify some elements of style in texts, including voice, word choice, word patterns, and sentence structure, and explain how they help communicate meaning

C2 Comprehension Strategies

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

C2.5 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

C2.7 Reflecting on Learning

Grade 1:  identify strategies, such as activating prior knowledge and visualizing, that have helped them comprehend texts

Grade 2:  identify strategies, such as rereading, visualizing, and asking questions, that have helped them comprehend various texts

Grade 3: describe how strategies, such as visualizing, making predictions, and connecting to their experiences, have helped them comprehend various texts

C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.4 Analyzing Cultural Elements of Texts

Grade 1: identify some cultural elements represented in various texts, including symbols and values, and explain how these elements contribute to the meaning

Grades 2-3:  identify some cultural elements represented in various texts, including symbols, language, and values, and pose questions and share ideas about how these elements contribute to the meaning

 

Strand D: Composition (Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts)

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

Grades 2-3: 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

D1.4 Organizing Conten

Grades 1-2: sort and sequence ideas and information, taking into account the text form and genre to be used

Grade 3: sort and sequence ideas and information, using appropriate strategies and tools, taking into account the text form and genre

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

D3 Publishing, Presenting and Reflecting

D3.1 Producing Final Texts

produce final texts, using simple techniques, to achieve the intended effect

D3.2 Publishing and Presenting Texts

present the texts they have created using appropriate strategies, including by reading aloud with expression