Embedded Files
Most of the curricula and assessment guidelines currently in use by the Frontier School Division are listed and linked below. Please contact the ELA coach if anything is missing or if any of the links are out of date.
Curricula
Curricula
is available for download as PDF files.
The Manitoba high school curriculum docs can be found in the links below:
Senior 1 English Language Arts_Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes and Senior 1 Standards
Senior 2 English Language Arts Standards (This doc also offers an overview of the high school curriculum)
Senior 3 English Language Arts Standards
Senior 4 English Language Arts Standards
Maple
Maple
MAPLE is worth checking out as it contains a variety of groups that teachers can join including various ELA-related groups and resources, Indigenous Education, Assessment, Math, etc.
Paws Writing Assessment
Paws Writing Assessment
Paws (Proficiency Assessment of Writing System) is teacher-developed and parent and student friendly. Paws scores directly translate to report card grades.
This Daily Assessment of Student Writing doc offers an overview of Paws along with grades K-6 Paws rubrics.
You may find this Paws General Considerations doc useful.
For more Paws documents, ideas, and writing exemplars, contact your ELA coach.
Literacy Tool
Literacy Tool
The Literacy Tool in Powerschool is used to enter fall and spring reading benchmark assessments for grades 1-8 using the circle icon. Running records can also be entered during the year using the triangle icon.
See this Literacy Tool Data Entry Steps Google Slideshow on how to enter benchmarks and running records.
In addition to the Literacy Tool, the Phonics Advantage Reading Assessment is being used in grades 1-3 in some schools.
Report Cards
Report Cards
These are the complete Manitoba Provincial Report Card Policy and Guidelines
The report card is intended and designed to provide clear, consistent information for parents based on a coherent framework for assessment, grading, and reporting. See this section of the above doc for clarification on converting ordinals to percent grades and on report card codes.
Frontier School Division report card comments are strength-based. Contact your ELA coach or principal for additional resources about writing strength-based comments.
Confident Learners
Confident Learners
Research is clear that becoming a skilled, confident reader during the first few years at school has a direct impact on a child’s well-being and positive school outcomes. Our aim is to support education leaders to ensure that all children can read by the end of Grade 3.
In collaboration with literacy experts, educators and Indigenous communities across North America, The Learning Bar developed the Confident Learners Program, a 3-year intervention designed to markedly improve the reading skills of children, build educators’ leadership and instructional capacity and support caregivers in becoming effective partners in their children’s reading success.
Frontier School Division has partnered with The Learning Bar to support its foundational literacy program.
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