Language Arts
Revised 2002
3.5
(Viewing and Media Literacy)
ALL STUDENTS WILL ACCESS, VIEW, EVALUATE, AND RESPOND TO
PRINT, NONPRINT, AND ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND RESOURCES.
A. Constructing Meaning from Media
1. Understand that messages are
representations of social reality and vary by historic time periods
and parts of the world.
2. Identify and evaluate how a
media product expresses the values of the culture that produced it.
3. Identify and select media forms
appropriate for the viewer’s purpose.
B. Visual and Verbal Messages
2. Evaluate media messages for credibility.
C. Living with Media
1. Evaluate media forms, such as television, video, games, music, and film for content appropriateness (e.g. rating systems, rubric).
2. Choose the most appropriate media for a presentation.
Students learn how to view critically and thoughtfully in
order to respond to visual messages and images in print, nonverbal interactions, the arts,
and electronic media. Effective viewing is essential to comprehend and respond to personal
interactions, live performances, visual arts that involve oral and/or written language,
and both print media (graphs, charts, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and graphic
design in books, magazines, and newspapers) and electronic media (television, computers,
film). A media-literate person is able to evaluate media for credibility and understands
how words, images, and sounds influence the way meanings are conveyed and understood in
contemporary society. Students need to recognize that what they speak, hear, write, and
read contributes to the content and quality of their viewing.
K-3
strands and indicators
4-8
strands and indicators
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Social Studies
Standard 6.1
All students will learn democratic citizenship and how to participate in the constitutional system of government of the US. Indicator
14: Locate, access, analyze, organize, and apply information about public
issues in order to evaluate the validity of different points of view.
This indicator covers what is often called "current events." Students study
public issues that are currently being discussed in the media.
Standard 6.1 All students will learn democratic citizenship and how to
participate in the constitutional system of government of the US. Indicator
14: Locate, access, analyze, organize, and apply information about public
issues in order to evaluate the validity of different points of view.
This indicator covers what is often called "current events." Students study
public issues that are currently being discussed in the media. |
Health
Standard 2.1
End of 8th grade:
Analyze how family, peers, culture, media, technology, and the
environment affect wellness.
Examine health product and food labels and advertisements,
comparing accuracy, content, directions, and value.
Analyze the influence of peers and the media on risk behaviors,
injuries, and violent behavior.
Standard 2.3 Discuss the influence of the media on the choice,
use, and misuse of medicines.
Media & Choices
Standard 2.3-13
See
Page 52 for
Sample Learning
Activities
Standard 2.4 Discuss the influence of the media on the development
of gender stereotypes.
Analyze sexual messages, images, and stereotypes presented in the
media and discuss their impact on sexual behavior. |