| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
English Language Arts 7 |
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 7 |
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; and register. Students should recognize the impact of language in their lives. |
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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 7 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to consider the influence of family, friends, activities, education, religion, gender, age, and place; to develop awareness that authors write from a perspective or point of view; 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 7 |
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 |
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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 7 |
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 illustration in graphic novels; advertisements on websites; lighting in film and photography; use of music, paragraph length, line breaks in poetry; pause and pace in spoken word; symbolic and emotional use of colour) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding |
English Language Arts 7 |
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 7 |
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: questioning and speculating, acquiring new ideas, analyzing and evaluating ideas, developing explanations, considering alternative points of view, summarizing, synthesizing, 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 7 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: diverse purposes |
Elaboration: such as to inquire, to explore, to inform, to interpret, to explain, to take a position, to propose a solution, to entertain |
| Keyword: variety of sources |
Elaboration: includes digital sources; students need to develop the language and tools to successfully navigate digital media (e.g., be familiar with terms and concepts such as browser, cookie, browsing history, hyperlinked text, thread, URL, posting etiquette, following social media, tweeting, privacy, digital identity) |
| 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. |
| Keyword: reliability |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to consider the authority of the source and whether it is a primary or secondary 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 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it purposefully. |
English Language Arts 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking. |
English Language Arts 6 |
No CCG |
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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 6 |
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 text can be a source of creativity and joy. |
English Language Arts 6 |
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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| Content |
Language features, structures, and conventions- features of oral language
- paragraphing
- language varieties
- sentence structure and grammar
- conventions
- presentation techniques
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English Language Arts 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: features of oral language |
Elaboration: including tone, volume, inflection, pace, gestures |
| Keyword: paragraphing |
Elaboration: developing paragraphs that are characterized by unity, development, and coherence |
| Keyword: language varieties |
Elaboration: regional dialects and varieties of English, standard Canadian English versus American English, formal versus informal registers, and situational varieties (e.g., texting versus essay writing) |
| Keyword: sentence structure and grammar |
Elaboration: varied sentence structure, pronoun use, subject-verb agreement, use of transitional words, awareness of run-on sentences and sentence fragments |
| Keyword: conventions |
Elaboration: common practices in all standard punctuation use, in capitalization, and in Canadian spelling |
| Keyword: presentation techniques |
Elaboration: Any presentation (in written, oral, or digital form) should reflect an appropriate choice of medium for the purpose and audience, and demonstrate thought and care in organization. |
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| Content |
Strategies and processes- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
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English Language Arts 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: reading strategies |
Elaboration: using contextual clues; using phonics and word structure; visualizing; questioning; predicting; previewing text; summarizing; making inferences |
| Keyword: oral language strategies |
Elaboration: focusing on the speaker, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, expressing opinions, speaking with expression, staying on topic, taking turns |
| Keyword: metacognitive strategies |
Elaboration: talking and thinking about learning (e.g., through reflecting, questioning, goal setting, self-evaluating) to develop one’s awareness of self as a reader and as a writer |
| Keyword: writing processes |
Elaboration: may include revising, editing, considering audience |
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