ELA NCTE Standards

The ELA/NCTE standards are very similiar to the PLS standards. After reading through the standards, I relaized that incorporating media into the English curriculum will help teachers meet these standards. For instance, the first standard,

"Students read a wide range of print and non-print texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works" could be accomplished by using media literacy."

I can't think of a better way to get students incolced with society. Media allows students to critically analyze what is goin on around them. It also allows students to play around with different types of texts like videos, billboards, articles, and computer texts.

Another standard that I thought correlated well with medial literacy is standard three.

"Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics)."

Students must learn to analyze and understand texts. Students are familiar with media, so this would be an excellent way for them to interpret texts and what is goin on in the world.

When I was student teaching, I observed a media class. It was offered by the Enlgish department, and it was a senior elective. In this class, students learned about the history of media and they analyzed different types of texts like billboards and advertisements. This just shows that media is being adopted by many districts as a way to interpret and critically analyze texts.