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.
NOTE: Updates to the Language learning activities are in progress to align with Ontario’s new 2023 Curriculum Documents.
How to Use These Resources
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.
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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.
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Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list.
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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”.
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Select a text of your choice and then consider the following questions:
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How will you identify your topic?
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What is the purpose of your writing?
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What form will best suit the purpose?
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Who will your audience be?
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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?
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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?
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On television, what characteristics are shared by positive role models?
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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?
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What kind of music would you use in a commercial for bicycles? Why?
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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
