English Language Arts

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.

Specific Outcomes:

        • 6-1.2 clarify and extend - use talk, notes, personal writing and representing, together with texts and the ideas of others, to clarify and shape understanding

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.

Specific Outcomes:

        • 6-2.1 strategies and cues – use phonics and structural analysis - integrate and apply knowledge of phonics, sight vocabulary, language and context clues, and structural analysis to read unfamiliar words in texts of increasing length and complexity
        • 6-2.4 create original text – generate ideas - choose life themes encountered in reading, listening and viewing activities, and in own experiences, for creating oral, print and other media texts
        • 6-2.4 structure texts - determine purpose and audience needs to choose forms, and organize ideas and details in oral, print and other media texts - express the same ideas in different forms and genres; compare and explain the effectiveness of each for audience and purpose

General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and information.

Specific Outcomes:

        • 6-3.1 plan and focus – focus attention - distinguish among facts, supported inferences and opinions --use note-taking or representing to assist with understanding ideas and information, and focusing topics for investigation
        • 6-3.1 plan and focus – plan to gather information - develop and follow own plan for accessing and gathering ideas and information, considering guidelines for time and length of investigation and presentation
        • 6-3.2 select and process – use a variety of sources - locate information to answer research questions, using a variety of sources, such as printed texts, bulletin boards, biographies, art, music, community resource people, CDROMs and the Internet
        • 6-3.2 select and process – access information - use a variety of tools, such as bibliographies, thesauri, electronic searches and technology, to access information - skim, scan and read closely to gather information
        • 6-3.2 select and process – evaluate sources - evaluate the congruency between gathered information and research purpose and focus, using pre-established criteria
        • 6-3.3 organize, record, and evaluate – orgainze information - organize ideas and information using a variety of strategies and techniques, such as comparing and contrasting, and classifying and sorting according to subtopics and sequence - organize and develop ideas and information into oral, print or other media texts with introductions that interest audiences and state the topic, sections that develop the topic and conclusions
        • 6-3.3 organize, record, and evaluate – record information - make notes on a topic, combining information from more than one source; use reference sources appropriately - use outlines, thought webs and summaries to show the relationships among ideas and information and to clarify meaning - quote information from oral, print and other media sources

General Outcome 4 Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.

Specific Outcomes:

        • 6-4.1 Enhance and improve – enhance artistry - experiment with several options, such as sentence structures, figurative language and multimedia effects, to choose the most appropriate way of communicating ideas or information
        • 6-4.2 attend to conventions – attend to grammar and usage - identify the use of coordinate and subordinate conjunctions to express ideas - use complex sentence structures and a variety of sentence types in own writing - identify comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, and use in own writing - identify past, present and future verb tenses, and use throughout a piece of writing
        • 6-4.2 attend to conventions – attend to spelling - use a variety of resources and strategies to determine and learn the correct spelling of common exceptions to conventional spelling patterns - explain the importance of correct spellings for effective communication - edit for and correct commonly misspelled words in own writing, using spelling generalizations and the meaning and function of words in context

General Outcome 5 Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.

Specific Outcomes:

        • 6-5.1 Relate texts to culture - identify ways in which oral, print and other media texts from diverse cultures and communities explore similar ideas
        • 6-5.2 Work within a group – cooperate with others - assume a variety of roles, and share responsibilities as a group member x identify and participate in situations and projects in which group work enhances learning and results
        • 6-5.2 work within a group – work in groups - contribute to group knowledge of topics to identify and focus information needs, sources and purposes for research or investigations - address specific problems in a group by specifying goals, devising alternative solutions and choosing the best alternative

Government of Alberta. (2000). English language arts K – grade 9. Retrieved from http://www.learnalberta.ca/ProgramOfStudy.aspx?lang=en&ProgramId=404703#