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NOTE: Updates to the Language learning activities are in progress to align with Ontario’s new 2023 Curriculum Documents.

How to Use These Resources

TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

Language development is central to students’ intellectual, social, and emotional growth, and should be seen as a key element of the curriculum. The language curriculum is based on the belief that literacy is critical to responsible and productive citizenship. The curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to achieve this goal.   

Students are encouraged to learn to identify and explore multiple perspectives, question the messages in texts, and look at issues related to fairness, equity, and social justice as language is a fundamental element of identity and culture. In order to communicate their own ideas and opinions students read and reflect on a rich variety of literary, informational, and media texts and begin to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and others. If they see themselves and others in the texts they read and the oral and media works they engage in, they are able to feel the works connect to the world they live in and from there come to appreciate the nature and value of a diverse, multicultural society. 

The language curriculum is divided into four strands:

  • Oral Communication
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Media Literacy

Interested in learning more? View Curriculum PDF
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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities
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Learning Activity 1
Let’s Pay Attention
Learning Activity 2
Presentation Strategies
Learning Activity 3
Using Descriptive Language
Learning Activity 4
Text Connections
Learning Activity 5
Perspectives
Learning Activity 6
Oral Communication Sequencing
Learning Activity 7
“How-To” Texts
Learning Activity 8
Let’s Summarize
Learning Activity 9
Finding the Meaning
Learning Activity 10
Rhyming Poetry
Learning Activity 11
Concrete Poetry
Learning Activity 12
Performances

Learning Activity 1
Why Read?
Learning Activity 2
What a Story!
Learning Activity 3
Retell or Summary?
Learning Activity 4
What a Character!
Learning Activity 5
Does it Look Right? Does it Sound Right? Does it Make Sense?
Learning Activity 6
I Can Figure That Out!
Learning Activity 7
What's the Message?
Learning Activity 8
What's Different About Nonfiction Texts?
Learning Activity 9
Fact or Opinion?
Learning Activity 10
What's the Main Idea?
Learning Activity 11
Let's Connect!
Learning Activity 12
Let's Read With Style!

Learning Activity 1
Research
Learning Activity 2
Creating a Personal Recount Storyboard
Learning Activity 3
Biography
Learning Activity 4
Point of View Paragraph
Learning Activity 5
Report
Learning Activity 6
Book Review Summary
Learning Activity 7
Website Review Summary
Learning Activity 8
Expression Letter to an Author
Learning Activity 9
Procedure
Learning Activity 10
Shape Poem
Learning Activity 11
The Cinquain Poem
Learning Activity 12
Tell A Tale Narrative

Learning Activity 1
Lights, Camera, Action!
Learning Activity 2
Advertisements
Learning Activity 3
Overt and Implied Messaging in Packaging
Learning Activity 4
Finding an Audience
Learning Activity 5
Which Media?
Learning Activity 6
Game Design
Learning Activity 7
Nature Programs
Learning Activity 8
Commercials
Learning Activity 9
PSAs (Public Service Announcements)
Learning Activity 10
News Reports
Learning Activity 11
Movie Trailers
Learning Activity 12
What's the Difference? Advertisements and Images

Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.

  • Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list. 

  • Select a text of your choice. What do you think will happen based on what the author has told you so far? As you are reading, take a moment to reflect on what the author is suggesting “between the lines”. 

  • Select a text of your choice and then consider the following questions:  

    • How will you identify your topic? 

    • What is the purpose of your writing?

    • What form will best suit the purpose?

    • Who will your audience be?

  • How does your experience with a variety of texts help you as a writer? In what way is talking before writing helpful to you? How does it help you to listen to someone else read your writing?

  • Explain which elements of a video game seem realistic and believable to you. Why is that? Did anything seem exaggerated to you? Do the characters in the video game accurately represent the diversity you see in society?

  • On television, what characteristics are shared by positive role models? 

  • Think of your favourite breakfast cereal. If you were creating an advertisement for it what kinds of images would you use so parents would buy the cereal? What kind of music would you have playing? How would you ensure your advertisement stood out?

  • What kind of music would you use in a commercial for bicycles? Why?

  • Does reading and writing about a story after seeing the movie, give you new ideas about what you saw

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

across

against

answer

awhile

between

board

bottom

breakfast

broken

building

captain

carried

caught

charge

chicken

circus

cities

clothes

company

couldn’t

country

discover

doctor

doesn’t

dollar

during

eighth

else

enjoy

enough

everybody

example

except

excuse

field

fifth

finish

following

good-bye

group

happened

haven’t

heavy

held

hospital

idea

instead

known

laugh

middle

minute

mountain

ninth

ocean

office

parent

peanut

pencil

picnic

pretty

prize

quite

radio

raise

really

reason

remember

return

Saturday

scare

second

since

slowly

stories

student

sudden

suit

sure

swimming

though

threw

tired

together

tomorrow

toward

tried

trouble

truly

turtle

until

village

visit

wear

we’ll

whole

whose

women

wouldn’t

writing

written

wrote

yell

young

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