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How will my student practice digital literacy?

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Below is a table of how students will practice and demonstrate literacy across each grade level when researching information:

ATL Skill Skill Year 1: 6th Year 2: 7th Year 3: 8th

Information Literacy

How can students

demonstrate information

literacy?

Understand and implement intellectual property rights
  • Discussion of individual’s thinking is their personal property
  • Paraphrasing other people’s ideas
  • When using someone else’s words, you must paraphrase or quote
  • You must cite someone else’s intellectual property
  • Back to School packet with parent signature
  • Review school academic honesty policy and federal copyright law

Information Literacy

How can students

demonstrate information

literacy?

Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions
  • Citations (basic structure, author/page number; author/line number)
  • Works cited (via online works cited creator, varies by assessment)
  • Refer to sources in CER
  • You must create a bibliography with 5 sources in MLA 8 format
  • Back to School packet
  • In-text citations in first & second unit
  • Works cited in first unit
  • MLA formatted in-text citations and bibliography

Media Literacy

How can students

demonstrate media

literacy?

Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use

information from a variety of sources and media (including digital

social media and online networks)

  • Text (book, article, short story, poetry) and film evidence
  • Pre-selected informational texts and MLA citations provided to guide students toward successful research practice
  • Students are asked to provide source information for images used in projects
  • Primary & secondary resources
  • Evidence in CER
  • Back to School packet
  • Social Awareness Campaign (primary & secondary sources, how to get different types of sources)