Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 4

Overall Expectations: Language as Sense Making

  • Access, use, build, and refine schema.
  • Select from and use a variety of strategies.
  • Be aware of and articulate the ways that one engages with text.

Specific Expectations:

  • Learners are demonstrating an understanding that texts are complex
  • Learners are using and talking about a variety of strategies and processes to understand and create texts.
  • Learners are reflecting on and using what they know about texts and themselves to make purposeful and personal decisions.
  • Learners are enhancing meaning through dialogue, reflection and revision

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Overall Expectations: Language as System

  • Recognize, apply and adapt rules and conventions (e.g., form, genre, grammar, register, punctuation, elements of design, spelling, legibility).

Specific Expectations:

  • Learners are recognizing, comparing, and using the codes and conventions of print, oral, visual, and multimodal texts.
  • Learners are choosing and using multiple styles of communication for clarity and effect.

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Overall Expectations: Language as Exploration and Design

  • Research and study topics and ideas.
  • Interpret and integrate information and ideas from multiple texts and sources.
  • Manage information and ideas.
  • Invent, take risks, and reflect to create possibilities.

Specific Expectations:

  • Learners are designing for specific purposes and for different audiences.
  • Learners are using strategies, resources, and sources to explore ideas and deepen and extend thinking.
  • Learners are contributing to communities to share knowledge, explore ideas, and deepen thinking.
  • Learners are blending experiences to represent ideas in different ways.

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Overall Expectations: Language as Power and Agency

  • Recognize and analyze inequities, viewpoints, and bias in texts and ideas.
  • Investigate complex moral and ethical issues and conflicts.
  • Contemplate the actions that can be taken, consider alternative viewpoints, and contribute other perspectives.

Specific Expectations:

  • Learners are recognizing the need for validity and reliability.
  • Learners are beginning to analyze differences in opinion.
  • Learners are expressing and supporting opinions and judgments.
  • Learners are recognizing that point of view has an impact on understanding.
  • Learners are exploring the decision making of text creators.
  • Learners are exploring how ideas like justice, equity, and fairness are complex.
  • Learners are recognizing families’ and peers’ unique identities and similar and different ways of seeing the world.

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