| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning |
Elaboration: for example, metaphor brings a fresh perspective to the common; irony can add social critique to an argument; allusion suggests connections between diverse elements; form often reflects function; diction influences emotion, persuasiveness, and meaning |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: personal, creative, and critical ways |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to demonstrate comprehension, understanding of connection, and thoughtfulness; support positions with evidence/reasoning; identify and challenge their own assumptions; show awareness of their emotional and cognitive reactions and of their own point of view; and show they can consider texts from different point of views. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity |
Elaboration: Our sense of individuality and belonging is a product of the language we use; oral tradition, story, recorded history, and social media; voice; cultural aspects; literacy history; linguistic background (English as first or additional language); register; and language as a system of meaning. Students should recognize that how we use language defines who we are in the world. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to recognize the influence of family, friends, activities, education, religion, gender, age, place, settlement patterns, immigration, economic factors, and political events (local and beyond); to recognize that authors write from a perspective influenced by such factors; and to consider the relationship between text and context. |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: Think critically, creatively, and reflectively |
Elaboration: questioning, interpreting, comparing, and contrasting a range of texts (e.g., narrative, poetry, visual texts); students should be encouraged to think outside the box, moving beyond the text and comparing texts; useful strategies include “exit slips,” “one star, one wish,” and quick activities to identify thinking |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: different features, forms, and genres of texts |
Elaboration: vary depending on the purpose and audience of the text; students should be encouraged to focus on the relationship between form and function (e.g., considering the role in various texts of elements such as negative space in graphic novels; advertisements on websites; lighting and camera angles in film and photography; use of music, paragraph length, line breaks in poetry; silence and intonation in spoken word; and colour) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: inquiry |
Elaboration: asking creative and critical questions supported and inspired by texts |
| Keyword: extend thinking |
Elaboration: may include questioning and speculating, acquiring new ideas, analyzing and evaluating ideas, developing explanations, considering alternative points of view, summarizing, synthesizing, and problem solving |
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| Curricular Competency |
Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability |
English Language Arts 8 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: diverse purposes |
Elaboration: examples include to inquire, to explore, to inform, to interpret, to explain, to take a position, to evaluate, to problem solve, to entertain |
| Keyword: relevance |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to ask: Does it meet the purpose? Is it current? Does it add new information? |
| Keyword: accuracy |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to distinguish fact from opinion and to consider the source of the information, whether it is supported by evidence, whether it is factually correct, and whether other sources support it. |
| Keyword: reliability |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to consider the credibility of voice, whether it is a primary or a secondary source, and the trustworthiness and authority of the source. |
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| Big Ideas |
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens. |
English Language Arts 9 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed. |
English Language Arts 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Texts |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Big Ideas |
People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives. |
English Language Arts 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Big Ideas |
Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world. |
English Language Arts 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: stories |
Elaboration: narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual, and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers. |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Big Ideas |
Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy. |
English Language Arts 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: story |
Elaboration: narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual, and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers. |
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