ontario curriculum correlation

Nelson Literacy 7 Correlation to Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8 : Language, 2006 (revised)

Expectations Nelson Literacy UnitTransparencies for Modelling and Shared Reading Student Books & Teacher’s Resource Magazines for Independent

and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page Reference

Oral LanguageUse appropriate visual aids to support/enhance oral presentations

Make an Impression “Peace it Together” SB pages 97-99 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Communicate in a clear, coherent manner appropriate for the audience/topic

Make an Impression “The Values of Speech” SB pages 83-85 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Extend understanding of oral texts by connecting to self/other texts/ world

Send A Message The Martians Are ComingTransfer Your Learning

Transparency 27 Transparency 30

“Family Communication”“There’s a Bathroom on the Right”“The Way I Talk”“Black Loyalists”

SB page 36SB page 37SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41SB pages 58-60

Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Make an Impression Transfer Your Learning Transparency 36 “The Moose”“An Artist Comes to Canada”

SB pages 70-71AB pages 114-116


Identify point of view and give evidence of bias in texts

Fears and Phobias “Feel the Fears and Do It Anyways”

SB pages 100-101 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Identify and use non-verbal cues appropriately to help convey meaning

Fears and Phobias “Ride the Fears” SB pages 93-94 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Send A Message “The Thank-You Letter” SB pages 14-15 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Develop and explain interpretations of oral texts by using stated and implied ideas

Mysteries Interview With a Mummy Transparency 15 SB page 82 Issue 9Issue 10Issue 11Issue 12

Fears and Phobias “I know I Flunked The History Test”


Send A Message The Martians Are Coming Transparency 27 “Family Communication”“There’s a Bathroom on the Right”“The Way I Talk”

SB page 36SB page 37SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41


Explain the connection between a speaker’s tone and point of view in oral texts

Step Up “The Blame” SB pages 31-33 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceAdapt active listening strategies to suit a variety of situations

Step Up Fair Play, Fair Win Transparency 3 “The Nest”“Universal Soldier” and “First They Came”“Resisting Hitler”“Signs of the Times”“The Blame”"The Tiger Who Would Be King”

SB pages 3-9SB pages 10-11SB pages 12-15SB pages 16-17SB page 30SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35


Tech Effects “Judging by the Cover” SB pages 90-91 Issue 5Issue 6Issue 7Issue 8

Mysteries Interview With a Mummy Transparency 15 “Welcome to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”“Veronica Mars”

SB page 82SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35


Fears and Phobias “Phobia Factor”“My Maturity, in Flames”“King on Fears”

SB pages 61-64SB pages 65-68SB pages 69-71


Communicate orally in a clear, coherent manner appropriate for topic/audience

Step Up Developing IdeasFair Play, Fair WinTransfer Your Learning

Transparency 2Transparency 3Transparency 6

“Principals and Principles”“Igniting Global Change One Candle at a Time”“Welcome to the Global Village”“The Blame”"The Tiger Who Would Be King”“Release the Crickets!”“I Need to Wake Up”“The Girl Who Called for Peace”“The Birdman”“How People Affect the Environment”

SB page 18SB pages 19-20SB pages 21-24SB page 25-29SB page 30SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41SB pages 43-45SB pages 46-53SB pages 54-56


Tech Effects The Sporty Chill PillElectronic Books: The Way of the FutureTransfer Your Learning


“The New Workplace”“Gamer Jobs”“Gamer Jobs”“Serious Playing”“Lose Now, Pay Later”“The Final Program”

SB page 70SB pages 78-81SB page 81SB pages 83-85SB pages 83-85SB pages 92-93SB pages 95-103SB pages 104-113SB pages 114--116


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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceMysteries Writing With a Strong Voice

Interview With a MummyTransfer Your Learning


“The Killer’s Tall Tale”“The Mystery of Oak Island”“Investigating the Aurora Borealis”“Amelia Earheart”“Veronica Mars”“Detecting Women Onscreen”“The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle”“The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition”“Acid Snails”

SB pages 3-7SB page 22SB pages 23-25SB pages 26-27SB pages 28-29SB page 82SB pages 34-35SB pages 38-41SB pages 45-47SB pages 48-55SB pages 56-58


Fears and Phobias In HidingSmell Alert

Transparency 20Transparency 21

“King on Fears”“Fears!...”“A Dragon’s Lament”“The Usher”“Scaredy Squirrel”“You Are in Bear Country”

SB pages 69-71SB pages 72-81SB page 82SB page 83SB pages 84-85SB pages 86-91SB page 92SB pages 109-113


Send A Message The Martians Are ComingTransfer Your Learning


“The Power of the Press”“The Blogger From Iraq”“Communication, Spy-Style”“There’s a Bathroom on the Right”“The Way I Talk”“Modern Manga”“Conversations With Great Apes”“Beware of Bad Science”“Black Loyalists”

SB pages 8-13SB pages 16-19SB pages 21-27SB page 36SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41SB pages 46-49SB page 51-53SB pages 54-57SB pages 58-60


Make an Impression Writing Conventions Transparency 31 “In the Blink of an Eye”“How to Fly Under the Radar”“Talk to Me”“TXTS” and “Txt Impressions”

SB pages 63-65SB pages 66-69SB page 76SB pages 77-79SB pages 80 and 81


Evaluate how well oral texts communicate ideas/opinions/themes/experiences and suggest improvements

Fears and Phobias When Fears Get Out of Control Transparency 23 “Mona Parsons” SB pages 102-103SB page 104


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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceEvaluate how well oral texts communicate ideas/opinions/themes/experiences

Make an Impression “Reach for the Stars” SB pages 88-89 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Identify and use vocal effects to help communicate meaning

Step Up "The Tiger Who Would Be King”“Release the Crickets!”

SB pages 34-35SB pages 38-39


Tech Effects Electronic Books: The Way of the Future

Transparency 9 “Gamer Jobs” SB page 81SB pages 83-85


Mysteries “The Hermit’s Secret” SB pages 16-21 Issue 9Issue 10Issue 11Issue 12

Fears and Phobias “Phobia Factor”“My Maturity, in Flames”“A Dragon’s Lament”“The Usher”“Scaredy Squirrel”“Fire and Death”“You Are in Bear Country”

SB pages 61-64SB pages 65-68SB page 83SB pages 84-85SB pages 86-91SB pages 105-108SB pages 109-113


Make an Impression Remembering Norval Morrisseau Transparency 33 “Now I See You”“Family Sketches”“Good Grief”“Reach for the Stars”“Zappit”

SB pages 72-73SB pages 74-74SB page 82SB pages 86-87SB pages 88-89SB pages 94-95


Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour

Tech Effects “A Brief Introduction to Virtual Reality”“Virtual School Has Everything but Building”“Is Txt Mightier Than the World?”“No-Tech Zone”“Judging by the Cover”

SB pages 59-62SB pages 66-67SB pages 68-69SB pages 76-77SB pages 90-91


Mysteries “The Buried Marbles Mystery”“Higher Animals”“King Tut’s Mysterious Death”



Fears and Phobias Transfer Your Learning Transparency 18 “Bullies and Bytes” SB pages 114-116 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceSend A Message How to Improve Fluency Transparency 26 “The Art of the Zine” SB pages 3-7

SB page 20Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Make an Impression “A League of Her Own” SB pages 106-113 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Identify purposes for listeningand set goals for listening tasks

Step Up Fair Play, Fair Win Transparency 3 SB page 30 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Tech Effects “Under the Virtual Weather” SB pages 63-65 Issue 5Issue 6Issue 7Issue 8

Identify helpful strategies to improve oral communication skills


Transparency 9 “Gamer Jobs”“Gamer Jobs”



Mysteries Interview With a Mummy Transparency 15 SB page 82 Issue 9Issue 10Issue 11Issue 12

Send A Message The Martians Are Coming Transparency 27 SB page 36 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Make an Impression “The Values of Speech”“Good Grief”



Extend understanding by connecting texts to self/text/world

Step Up “Isms”“In memory of a friend”Transfer Your Learning

Read AloudTransparency 1Transparency 6

Make Connections“The Nest”“Universal Soldier” and “First They Came”“Resisting Hitler”“Signs of the Times”“Igniting Global Change One Candle at a Time”“How People Affect the Environment”

SB page 1SB page 2SB pages 3-9SB pages 10-11SB pages 12-15SB pages 16-17SB pages 21-24SB pages 54-56


Use interesting, inclusive and non-discriminatory oral language to communicate accurately

Make an Impression Remembering Norval Morrisseau Transparency 33 SB page 82 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceDemonstrate understanding by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details

Fears and Phobias “Freeze, Flight or Fight”Why Do We Love Horror Movies?

Read-AloudTransparency 19

SB page 60 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Evaluate the effectiveness of texts bases on evidence from the texts

Tech Effects Transfer Your Learning Transparency 12 “A Brief Introduction to Virtual Reality”“Under the Virtual Weather”“Virtual School Has Everything but Building”“Is Txt Mightier Than the World?”

SB pages 59-62SB pages 63-65SB pages 66-67SB pages 68-69SB pages 114--116


Make an Impression Transfer Your Learning Transparency 36 “An Artist Comes to Canada” SB pages 114-116 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Evaluate the effectiveness of texts based on text evidence

Make an Impression “Why I Wear a Hijab”Baby Faces


“In the Blink of an Eye”“How to Fly Under the Radar”“The Moose”“Now I See You”“Family Sketches”

SB page 62SB pages 63-65SB pages 66-69SB pages 70-71SB pages 72-73SB pages 74-74


Develop and explain interpretations of texts using stated and implied ideas

Tech Effects “Will Your Next Vacation Be in Space?”From Fiction to Fact?Transfer Your Learning

Read AloudTransparency 7Transparency 12

“A Brief Introduction to Virtual Reality”“Under the Virtual Weather”“Virtual School Has Everything but Building”“Is Txt Mightier Than the World?”“Judging by the Cover”“Serious Playing”

SB page 58SB pages 59-62SB pages 63-65SB pages 66-67SB pages 68-69SB pages 90-91SB pages 92-93SB pages 114--116


Mysteries “CSI: The Snow and Ice Version”Who is Terry?Transfer Your Learning

Read-AloudTransparency 13Transparency 18

“The Killer’s Tall Tale”“The Buried Marbles Mystery”“Higher Animals”“The Hermit’s Secret”“Welcome to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”“Veronica Mars”“Acid Snails”

SB page 2SB pages 3-7SB pages 8-9SB pages 10-15SB pages 16-21SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35SB pages 56-58


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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceFears and Phobias “A Dragon’s Lament” SB page 83 Issue 13

Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Make an Impression “Talk to Me”“TXTS” and “Txt Impressions”

SB pages 77-79SB pages 80 and 81


Identify/Explain how text patterns communicate meaning

Step Up How to Write a Petition Transparency 5 “The Girl Who Called for Peace” SB page 42SB pages 43-45


Fears and Phobias When Fears Get Out of Control Transparency 23 “Fire and Death”“You Are in Bear Country”



Make an Impression “Peace it Together” SB pages 97-99 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Identify and explain how text features communicate meaning

Step Up “Welcome to the Global Village”“The Birdman”

SB page 25-29SB pages 46-53


Send A Message Cracking the Secrets of the Earth’s CrustTransfer Your Learning


“The Art f the Zine”“The Power of the Press”“The Thank-You Letter”“The Blogger From Iraq”“Black Loyalists”

SB page 2SB pages 3-7SB pages 8-13SB pages 14-15SB pages 16-19SB pages 58-60


Identify and explain how text patterns communicate meaning

Tech Effects “New Dinosaurs”“No-Tech Zone”



Mysteries What Killed Napoleon? Transparency 17 “The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle”“The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition”



Send A Message The Decline and Fall of the CD Empire

Transparency 29 “Conversations With Great Apes”“Beware of Bad Science”

SB page 50SB page 51-53SB pages 54-57


Make an Impression Woman in Motion Transparency 35 “Made You Look”“A League of Her Own”



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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceAnalyze/explain how the characteristics of texts help communicate meaning

Tech Effects The Flying Machine Transparency 11 “Lose Now, Pay Later”“The Final Program”



Make an Impression Woman in Motion Transparency 35 “TXTS” and “Txt Impressions” SB pages 80 and 81SB page 96


Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures


Use a variety of strategies to understand texts

Step Up “Release the Crickets!”“I Need to Wake Up”



Tech Effects “The New Workplace”“Gamer Jobs”“Gamer Jobs”



Fears and Phobias “Mona Parsons” SB pages 102-103 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Send A Message “Communication, Spy-Style”“Emergency Communication”“Family Communication”“There’s a Bathroom on the Right”

SB pages 21-27SB pages 28-31SB page 37SB pages 38-39


Demonstrate understanding by summarizing important ideas

Fears and Phobias Transfer Your Learning Transparency 18 “Phobia Factor”“My Maturity, in Flames”“King on Fears”“Fears!...”“Bullies and Bytes”



Send A Message “Sky Messengers”Cracking the Secrets of the Earth’s CrustTransfer Your Learning

Read-AloudTransparency 25 Transparency 30

“The Art f the Zine”“The Power of the Press”“The Thank-You Letter”“The Blogger From Iraq”“Black Loyalists”

SB page 2 SB pages 3-7SB pages 8-13SB pages 14-15SB pages 16-19SB pages 58-60


Analyze how different elements in texts contribute to meaning

Step Up “Principals and Principles” SB pages 19-20 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceFears and Phobias “The Usher”

“Scaredy Squirrel”SB pages 84-85SB pages 86-91


Send A Message Cracking the Secrets of the Earth’s Crust

Transparency 25 “The Power of the Press” SB page 2SB pages 8-13


Identify helpful strategies for before, during and after reading

Step Up “In memory of a friend”How to Write a Petition


Make Connections“The Nest”“Universal Soldier” and “First They Came”“Resisting Hitler”“Signs of the Times”

SB page 2SB pages 3-9SB pages 10-11SB pages 12-15SB pages 16-17SB page 42


Tech Effects From Fiction to Fact?The Flying MachineTransfer Your Learning


“Virtual School Has Everything but Building”“Lose Now, Pay Later”“The Final Program”

SB page 58SB pages 66-67SB page 94SB pages 95-103SB pages 104-113SB pages 114--116


Mysteries Who is Terry?What Killed Napoleon?


“The Killer’s Tall Tale”“Higher Animals”“The Hermit’s Secret”“The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle”

SB page 2SB pages 3-7SB pages 10-15SB pages 16-21SB page 44SB pages 45-47


Fears and Phobias Why Do We Love Horror Movies? Transparency 19 SB page 60 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Send A Message “Sky Messengers”The Decline and Fall of the CD Empire


“Conversations With Great Apes”“Beware of Bad Science”

SB page 50SB page 51-53SB pages 54-57


Explain how elements of style help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of texts

Mysteries “The Mystery of Oak Island”“Investigating the Aurora Borealis”



Explain how elements of style help communicate meaning

Tech Effects “Under the Virtual Weather” SB pages 63-65 Issue 5Issue 6Issue 7Issue 8

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceMysteries “Amelia Earheart” SB pages 28-29 Issue 9


Make an Impression “Made You Look” SB pages 100-105 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Demonstrate an understanding of the information/ideas in oral texts

Fears and Phobias Smell Alert Transparency 21 “Ride the Fears”“I know I Flunked The History Test”



Make an Impression “TXTS” and “Txt Impressions” SB pages 80 and 81 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

WritingGenerate appropriate ideas for writing

Send A Message “The Blogger From Iraq” SB pages 16-19 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Identify their point of view; evaluate and acknowledge other points of view


Vary sentence structures using connecting/introductory words and phrases

Mysteries Writing With a Strong Voice Transparency 14 “Amelia Earheart” SB page 22SB pages 28-29


Send A Message How to Improve Fluency Transparency 26 “Communication, Spy-Style”“Emergency Communication”“Messages in the Face of Disaster”

SB page 20SB pages 21-27SB pages 28-31SB pages 32-35


Regularly use vivid/figurative language and innovative expressions

Mysteries Writing With a Strong Voice Transparency 14 “Higher Animals”“Amelia Earheart”

SB pages 10-15SB page 22SB pages 28-29


Fears and Phobias In Hiding Transparency 20 “A Dragon’s Lament” SB page 82SB page 83


Write complex texts of different lengths using a range of forms

Step Up “The Blame” SB pages 31-33 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Mysteries “The Buried Marbles Mystery”“Higher Animals”



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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceSend A Message The Martians Are Coming Transparency 27 “What’s Manga”

“Modern Manga”SB page 36SB pages 44-45SB pages 46-49


Make an Impression “How to Fly Under the Radar”“The Moose”“Family Sketches”



Identify helpful strategies to improve as writers

Step Up Developing Ideas Transparency 2 SB page 18 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Tech Effects The Sporty Chill Pill Transparency 8 “New Dinosaurs”“The New Workplace”



Mysteries Writing With a Strong Voice Transparency 14 “The Mystery of Oak Island” SB page 22SB pages 23-25


Send A Message How to Improve Fluency Transparency 26 “Emergency Communication” SB page 20SB pages 28-31


Confirm spellings and word meanings/word choice using appropriate resources

Make an Impression “Talk to Me”“TXTS” and “Txt Impressions”

SB pages 77-79SB pages 80 and 81


Identify elements in their writing that need improvement, using feedback

Send A Message “Communication, Spy-Style”“Emergency Communication”“Messages in the Face of Disaster”



Make an Impression Writing Conventions Transparency 31 SB page 76 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Establish a distinctive voice appropriate to the subject and audience

Mysteries Writing With a Strong VoiceInterview With a Mummy


“The Mystery of Oak Island”“Investigating the Aurora Borealis”“Amelia Earheart”“Welcome to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”“Veronica Mars”

SB page 22SB pages 23-25SB pages 26-27SB pages 28-29SB page 82SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35


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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceFears and Phobias “Phobia Factor”

“My Maturity, in Flames”“King on Fears”“Fears!...”“The Usher”“Scaredy Squirrel”“Ride the Fears”“I know I Flunked The History Test”“Feel the Fears and Do It Anyways”“You Are in Bear Country”

SB pages 61-64SB pages 65-68SB pages 69-71SB pages 72-81SB pages 84-85SB pages 86-91SB pages 93-94SB pages 95-97SB pages 100-101SB pages 109-113


Send A Message “The Thank-You Letter” SB pages 14-15 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Make an Impression “In the Blink of an Eye”“Now I See You”“Family Sketches”“Talk to Me”“TXTS” and “Txt Impressions”“The Values of Speech”“Good Grief”“Reach for the Stars”

SB pages 63-65SB pages 72-73SB pages 74-74SB pages 77-79SB pages 80 and 81SB pages 83-85SB pages 86-87SB pages 88-89


Generate appropriate ideas about a topic

Step Up Developing IdeasTransfer Your Learning


“The Nest”“Resisting Hitler”“Principals and Principles”“Igniting Global Change One Candle at a Time”“Welcome to the Global Village”“The Girl Who Called for Peace”“How People Affect the Environment”

SB pages 3-9SB pages 12-15SB page 18SB pages 19-20SB pages 21-24SB page 25-29SB pages 43-45SB pages 54-56


Tech Effects The Sporty Chill Pill Transparency 8 “Under the Virtual Weather”“Virtual School Has Everything but Building”“Is Txt Mightier Than the World?”

SB pages 63-65SB pages 66-67SB pages 68-69SB page 70


Make an Impression “Developing Zappit”“A League of Her Own”



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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceRevise written work to improve content, clarity and interest

Fears and Phobias In Hiding Transparency 20 “A Dragon’s Lament” SB page 82SB page 83


Send A Message How to Improve Fluency Transparency 26 SB page 20 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Make an Impression Writing Conventions Transparency 31 SB page 76 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Sort and classify ideas/information to see different combinations/relationships

Tech Effects “New Dinosaurs”“No-Tech Zone”



Identify/order main ideas and supporting details for a writing piece

Step Up Developing IdeasFair Play, Fair Win


“Universal Soldier” and “First They Came”“Signs of the Times”“Principals and Principles”“Igniting Global Change One Candle at a Time”“Welcome to the Global Village”“The Birdman”

SB pages 10-11SB pages 16-17SB page 18SB pages 19-20SB pages 21-24SB page 25-29SB page 30SB pages 46-53


Tech Effects The Sporty Chill PillTransfer Your Learning


“New Dinosaurs”“No-Tech Zone”“The New Workplace”“Gamer Jobs”“Gamer Jobs”“Serious Playing”“Lose Now, Pay Later”“The Final Program”

SB page 70SB pages 71-75SB pages 76-77SB pages 78-81SB pages 83-85SB pages 83-85SB pages 92-93SB pages 95-103SB pages 104-113SB pages 114--116


Mysteries Transfer Your Learning Transparency 18 “The Killer’s Tall Tale”“The Hermit’s Secret”“The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle”“The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition”“Acid Snails”



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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceFears and Phobias Smell Alert

Transfer Your LearningTransparency 21Transparency 18

“Fire and Death”“Bullies and Bytes”



Send A Message Transfer Your Learning Transparency 30 “The Art f the Zine”“Conversations With Great Apes”“Beware of Bad Science”“Black Loyalists”

SB pages 3-7SB page 51-53SB pages 54-57SB pages 58-60


Make an Impression Remembering Norval Morrisseau Transparency 33 “Peace it Together” SB page 82SB pages 97-99


Identify the topic, purpose, and audience for writing

Step Up Developing Ideas Transparency 2 “I Need to Wake Up” SB page 18SB pages 40-41


Tech Effects The Sporty Chill Pill Transparency 8 SB page 70 Issue 5Issue 6Issue 7Issue 8

Make an Impression “Made You Look” SB pages 100-105 Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Media LiteracyDemonstrate understanding of different points of view in media texts


Send A Message “The Power of the Press” SB pages 8-13 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20


Identify an appropriate media form to suit purpose and audience

Fears and Phobias “Fears! …” SB pages 72-81 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

Explain how elements of media texts combine to create meaning

Mysteries “Detecting Women Onscreen”“King Tut’s Mysterious Death”



Send A Message “Modern Manga” SB pages 46-49 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceExplain how elements of media texts combine to create/enhance meaning

Send A Message Birthday Greetings from the Stone Age

Transparency 28 “What’s Manga” SB pages 42-43SB pages 44-45


Make an Impression Remembering Norval Morrisseau Transparency 33 “Developing Zappit” SB page 82SB pages 92-93


Identify conventions/techniques appropriate for a media text and explain how they communicate their message

Tech Effects “Judging by the Cover”“Serious Playing”



Send A Message “The Way I Talk” SB pages 40-41 Issue 17Issue 18Issue 19Issue 20

Identify conventions/techniques appropriate for a media text

Mysteries “Detecting Women Onscreen”“King Tut’s Mysterious Death”



Fears and Phobias “The Usher”“Feel the Fears and Do It Anyways”“Mona Parsons”



Make an Impression “How to Fly Under the Radar”“Family Sketches”



Produce appropriate media texts for specific purposes and audiences

Step Up “Welcome to the Global Village”"The Tiger Who Would Be King”“Release the Crickets!”“I Need to Wake Up”“The Girl Who Called for Peace”

SB page 25-29SB pages 34-35SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41SB pages 43-45



Transparency 9 “Is Txt Mightier Than the World?”“The Final Program”

SB pages 68-69SB page 81SB pages 104-113


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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceMysteries Transfer Your Learning Transparency 18 “The Killer’s Tall Tale”

“The Buried Marbles Mystery”“Higher Animals”“The Mystery of Oak Island”“Investigating the Aurora Borealis”“Welcome to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”“Veronica Mars”“The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition”“Acid Snails”

SB pages 3-7SB pages 8-9SB pages 10-15SB pages 23-25SB pages 26-27SB pages 31-33SB pages 34-35SB pages 48-55SB pages 56-58


Fears and Phobias Transfer Your Learning Transparency 18 “My Maturity, in Flames”“Scaredy Squirrel”“Ride the Fears”“I know I Flunked The History Test”“You Are in Bear Country”“Bullies and Bytes”

SB pages 65-68SB pages 86-91SB pages 93-94SB pages 95-97SB pages 109-113SB pages 114-116


Send A Message Transfer Your Learning Transparency 30 “The Blogger From Iraq”“Communication, Spy-Style”“Family Communication”“Beware of Bad Science”“Black Loyalists”

SB pages 16-19SB pages 21-27SB page 37SB pages 54-57SB pages 58-60


Make an Impression “In the Blink of an Eye”“Good Grief”“Reach for the Stars”“Peace it Together”“Made You Look”“A League of Her Own”

SB pages 63-65SB pages 86-87SB pages 88-89SB pages 97-99SB pages 100-105SB pages 106-113


Demonstrate understanding of different points of view in media texts

Step Up “Universal Soldier” and “First They Came”“Resisting Hitler”



Fears and Phobias Sunscreen Transparency 22 “Feel the Fears and Do It Anyways”



Identify who produces media texts and the interests involved

Step Up “Signs of the Times” SB pages 16-17 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Explain choice of topic and possible challenges when creating a media text

Step Up “Principals and Principles” SB pages 19-20 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceSend A Message “There’s a Bathroom on the Right” SB pages 38-39 Issue 17


Identify helpful strategies in making sense of and creating media texts

Step Up What’s On the Cover? Transparency 4 SB pages 36-37 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Tech Effects Time is Relative Transparency 10 SB pages 88-89 Issue 5Issue 6Issue 7Issue 8

Mysteries Great Canadian Mysteries SB pages 36-37“King Tut’s Mysterious Death”


Send A Message Birthday Greetings from the Stone Age

Transparency 28 “What’s Manga”“Modern Manga”



Evaluate effectiveness of presentation/treatment of ideas in media texts

Step Up “Igniting Global Change One Candle at a Time”“The Birdman”



Tech Effects Time is Relative Transparency 10 “A Brief Introduction to Virtual Reality”“New Dinosaurs”“No-Tech Zone”“Judging by the Cover”



Mysteries Great Canadian Mysteries SB pages 36-37“Detecting Women Onscreen”“King Tut’s Mysterious Death”



Fears and Phobias “Phobia Factor”“King on Fears”“Fire and Death”



Make an Impression “The Moose”“Now I See You”“Zappit”



Explain how media texts address their intended purpose/audience

Step Up What’s On the Cover?Transfer Your Learning


“Release the Crickets!”“I Need to Wake Up”“How People Affect the Environment”

SB pages 36-37SB pages 38-39SB pages 40-41SB pages 54-56


Fears and Phobias Sunscreen Transparency 22 SB pages 98-99 Issue 13Issue 14Issue 15Issue 16

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and Guided PracticeTitle Page Reference Title Page ReferenceMake an Impression Creating DVD Covers Transparency 34 “Developing Zappit” SB pages 90-91

SB pages 92-93Issue 21Issue 22Issue 23Issue 24

Identify/explain the use of conventions/techniques in media texts

Step Up “The Nest” SB pages 3-9 Issue 1Issue 2Issue 3Issue 4

Send A Message “Messages in the Face of Disaster”“What’s Manga”“Modern Manga”



Make an Impression Creating DVD Covers Transparency 34 “TXTS” and “Txt Impressions” SB pages 80 and 81SB pages 90-91


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