English Language Arts

The Elementary English Language Arts program is designed to equip students with tools to help them meet the demands of interacting with creating increasingly longer and more complex texts. Students are encouraged to reflect on themselves as consumers and creators of texts to identify their strengths and areas for improvement.

The program supports student engagement in a range of experiences which encourages them to become reflective, articulate and critically literate individuals who successfully use language for learning and communicating in personal and public contexts.

Elementary English language arts is designed to enhance students’ ability to:

• analyze issues and messages in texts related to fairness, equity and social justice

• analyze the structure and elements of a variety of texts

• apply knowledge of language conventions in creating texts

• be creative in generating and developing ideas for texts

• create increasingly complex texts, using a variety of text forms

• extend endurance for independent listening, reading and viewing

• navigate appropriate texts fluently with expression and confidence

• use cognitive strategies to make meaning of more complex text