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.
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.
In grade 7, students are encouraged to write about and discuss topics of relevance that matter in their daily lives. The language expectations focus on the consolidation of students’ language knowledge, skills, and strategies and their ability to use them independently and effectively to understand, reflect on, apply, and communicate information and ideas, for continued learning in school and in a multicultural, multimedia world.
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.
Please note: To access the learning activities, visit this page with a computer or tablet.
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.
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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Compare and appraise media techniques used within the articles and videos in a graphic organizer.
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Create a word cloud of high-frequency words using notes from your observations on debates.
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Use an online comic creator to write an original comic strip.
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Research other times humans have done competitions against machines.
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Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list.
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Write a postcard to someone you know about if you think coding will be beneficial to yourself and use evidence from the resource to support your answer.
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Design a mindmap on how brands can be more conscious of various perspectives and be more inclusive.
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Create a speech on why sustainable fashion is important and cite The Agenda for information.
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.
audience
blog
comprehension
concept map
conventions
critical literacy
critical thinking
culture
diversity
editing
elements of text
graphic novel
homonym
homophone
hyperbole
hyperlink
idiom
imagery
inclusive language
inferring
irony
media
metacognition
paraphrase
point of view
revising
stereotype
storyboard
summarizing
synonym
syntax
synthesis
text
voice
webcast
web page
webquest
website
zine