Grade 11

By the end of Phase F, students use English to communicate with teachers, peers and others in a range of settings and for a range of purposes. They use and respond to open-ended questions and use strategies to initiate, sustain and conclude conversations and discussion. They understand and identify the main ideas and relevant details of discussions or presentations on a wide range of topics. They use English to express opinions on social issues and to discuss youth-related interests, behaviours and values across cultural contexts. They opinions, make comparisons and evaluate perspectives. They employ self-correction and repair strategies, and use non-verbal elements such as gestures, speed and pitch to be understood in most contexts. 

By the end of Phase F, students independently read and respond to a wide range of texts such as narratives, descriptives, expositions, procedures, argumentatives and discussions. They read to learn and read for pleasure. They locate, synthesize and evaluate specific details and gist from a range of text genres. These texts may be in the form of print or digital texts, including visual, multimodal or interactive texts. They demonstrate an understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot development in a range of texts. They identify the author’s purpose and make inference to comprehend implicit information in the text. 

By the end of Phase F, students independently write an extensive range of fictional and factual text types, showing an awareness of purpose and audience. They plan, write, review and redraft a  range of text types with some evidence of self- correction strategies, including punctuation,  capitalization and tenses. They express complex ideas and use a wide range of vocabulary and verb tenses in their writing. They include topic sentences in their paragraphs and use time markers for sequencing, also conjunctions, connectives and pronoun references for linking or contrasting ideas between and within paragraphs. They present information using different modes of presentation to suit different audiences and to achieve different purposes, in print and digital forms.