Grade 9 English Language Arts Essentials

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Provincial Documents

Classroom Resources provided by SSRCE

Click here to find  additional literacy resources available in your school, provided by SSRCE. 

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Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop (Distributed 2021-2022 - one copy per school)


Regionally Developed Resources

Grade 9 ELA Curriculum Checklist

Each document prints to 8.5x11 paper, perfect for your curriculum binder. This checklist includes English Language Arts GCOs and SCOs.




ELA 9 Outcome Checklist

English Language Arts 9 Outcome Checklist

Provincial Reading and Writing Assessments

Lessons Learned: For Teachers Nova Scotia Examination: English Grade 10: Lessons Learned 

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Provincial Assessment Details

There is no provincial reading and writing assessment in grade 9. Students in Nova Scotia write a provincial assessment in reading and writing in grades 3, 6, and 8 and write a provincial English exam in grade 10. For more information about provincial assessments and exams go to https://plans.ednet.ns.ca/.

Lessons Learned: For Teachers

This document compiles the data from past NSE English 10 assessments in easy-to-read language. "Seven “Lessons Learned” from the results of the Nova Scotia English 10 examination are presented here. Each lesson learned lays out the evidence for the need to focus on a particular area of the curriculum in English Language Arts. Exam questions and examples of student responses are discussed, and instructional strategies are then suggested for each lesson learned. A primary purpose of this document is to communicate to teachers the need for focus on certain areas in the ELA curriculum based on province-wide results in the examination. Another purpose of this document is to suggest strategies for teachers when planning classroom instruction not only in Grade 10 but in Grades 9, 11 and 12 as well." (pg. 1) .

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