Lesson: What’s in the Frame?

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

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

C1.3 Text Patterns and Features

Grade 1: identify some text patterns, such as sequencing and chronological order, and text features, including illustrations, symbols, and titles, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

Grade 2: identify some text patterns, such as chronological order and journal entry, and text features, including table of contents, charts, and icons, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

Grade 3: identify some text patterns, such as order of importance and cause and effect, and text features, such as headings and an index, associated with various text forms, and explain how they help readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

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

C1.6 Point of View

Grade 1: identify the narrator’s point of view in a variety of texts, and suggest an alternative point of view to tell the story

Grade 2:  identify the narrator’s point of view, including first person or third person, in simple texts, and suggest an alternative point of view to tell the story

Grade 3: identify the narrator’s point of view, including first person or third person, in a variety of texts, and suggest alternative points of view

 

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

C2.5 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

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

C3.1 Literary Devices

Grade 1:  identify simple literacy devices, including rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and describe how they help communicate meaning

Grade 2:  identify simple literary devices, including consonance and simile, and describe how they help communicate meaning

Grade 3:  identify literary devices, including metaphor and assonance, and describe how they help communicate meaning

C3.2 Making Inferences

Grade 1:  make simple inferences, using stated and implied information and ideas, to understand simple texts

Grade 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

C3.6 Analysis and Response

Grades 1-2:  express personal thoughts and feelings about ideas presented in texts, such as ideas about diversity, inclusion, and accessibility

Grade 3: describe personal thoughts and feelings about ideas presented in texts, such as ideas about diversity, inclusion, and accessibility

C3.8 Reflecting on Learning

Grade 1:  identify thinking skills that helped them understand simple texts

Grade 2: identify thinking skills that have helped them analyze and better understand simple texts

Grade 3: identify thinking skills that have helped them analyze and better understand various texts

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

D1.4 Organizing Content

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

D2.4 Point of View and Perspective

Grades 1-2: identify the point of view, including first person, used in their texts

Grade 3:  identify the point of view, including first person or third person, used in their texts