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Strategies and processes- reading strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
- oral language strategies
- multimedia presentation processes
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New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: reading strategies |
Elaboration: There are many strategies that readers use when making sense of text. Students consider what strategies they need to use to “unpack” text. They employ strategies with increasing independence depending on the purpose, text, and context. Strategies include but may not be limited to predicting, inferring, questioning, paraphrasing, using context clues, using text features, visualizing, making connections, summarizing, identifying big ideas, synthesizing, and reflecting. |
| Keyword: metacognitive strategies |
Elaboration: thinking about our own thinkingreflecting on our processes and determining strengths and challengesStudents employ metacognitive strategies to gain increasing independence in learning. |
| Keyword: writing processes |
Elaboration: There are various writing processes depending on context. These may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising, and/or editing. Writers often have very personalized processes when writing. Writing is an iterative process. |
| Keyword: oral language strategies |
Elaboration: speaking with expression, connecting with listeners, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, summarizing, paraphrasing |
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| Content |
Text features and structures- narrative structures, including those found in First Peoples’ texts
- form, function, and genre of new media and other texts
- interactivity
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New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Text features |
Elaboration: attributes or elements of the text that may include typography (bold, italics, underlining, font choice), guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/text boxes |
| Keyword: structures |
Elaboration: how text is organized |
| Keyword: in First Peoples’ texts |
Elaboration: for example, circular, iterative, cyclical |
| Keyword: function |
Elaboration: the intended purpose of a text |
| Keyword: interactivity |
Elaboration: the process of two or more people working together and influencing each other, including the ability of a user to interact with the digital media, or with a computer to respond to user input |
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| Content |
Protocols- protocols related to ownership and use of First Peoples oral texts
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New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Protocols |
Elaboration: Protocols are rules governing behaviour or interactions.Protocols can be general and apply to many First Peoples cultures, or specific to individual First Nations. |
| Keyword: ownership and use of First Peoples oral texts |
Elaboration: Stories often have protocols for when and where they can be shared, who owns them, and who can share them. |
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| Content |
First Peoples oral traditions |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: First Peoples oral traditions |
Elaboration: Oral traditions are the The means by which cultural transmission occurs over generations, other than through written records. Among First Peoples, oral traditions may consist of told stories, songs and/or other types of distilled wisdom or information, often complemented by dance or various forms of visual representation such as carvings or masks. In addition to expressing spiritual and emotional truth (e.g., via symbol and metaphor), these traditions provide a record of literal truth (e.g., regarding events and/or situations). They were integrated into every facet of life and were the basis of First Peoples education systems. They continue to endure in contemporary contexts. |
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| Content |
Reconciliation in Canada |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Reconciliation |
Elaboration: the movement to heal the relationship between First Peoples and Canada that was damaged by colonial policies such as the Indian residential school system |
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| Content |
Common themes in First Peoples texts |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Common themes in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: connection to the landthe nature and place of spirituality as an aspect of wisdomthe relationships between individual and communitythe importance of oral traditionthe experience of colonization and decolonizationloss of identity and affirmation of identitytraditionhealingrole of familyimportance of Elders |
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| Content |
Text forms and genres |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: forms |
Elaboration: Within a type of communication, the writer, speaker, or designer chooses a form based on the purpose of the piece. Common written forms include narratives; journals; procedural, expository, and explanatory documents; news articles; e-mails; blogs; advertisements; poetry; novels; and letters. |
| Keyword: genres |
Elaboration: literary or thematic categories (e.g., science fiction, biography, satire, memoir, poem, visual essay, personal narrative, speech, oral history) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select and use media appropriate to purpose, audience, and context |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: refine texts to improve clarity and impact |
Elaboration: creatively and critically manipulating appropriate elements, including language, for a desired effectconsciously and purposefully making stylistic choices |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use writing and multimedia design processes to plan, develop, and create texts for a variety of purposes and audiences |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: writing and multimedia design processes |
Elaboration: There are various writing and/or design processes depending on context, and these may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising, and/or editing.Multimedia design processes may include pre-writing and planning, drafting, or storyboarding; revising, editing, and publishing; choosing and employing apps, software programs, and/or digital tools; and developing or choosing colour schemes, appropriate formats, and/or layouts. |
| Keyword: audiences |
Elaboration: Students expand their understanding of the range of real-world audiences. These can include children, peers, and community members, as well as technical, academic, and business audiences. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use digital media to collaborate and communicate both within the classroom and beyond its walls |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express an opinion and support it with evidence |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use the conventions of First Peoples and other Canadian spelling, syntax, and diction proficiently and as appropriate to the context |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize intellectual property rights and community protocols and apply as necessary |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: speaking and listening skills |
Elaboration: Strategies associated with speaking skills may include the conscious use of emotion, pauses, inflection, silence, and emphasis according to context.Strategies associated with listening skills may include receptive body language, eye contact, paraphrasing building on others’ ideas, asking clarifying questions, and disagreeing respectfully. |
| Keyword: range of purposes |
Elaboration: may include to understand, to inquire, to explore, to inform, to interpret, to explain, to take a position, to evaluate, to provoke, to problem solve, and to entertain |
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