Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 8

Overall Expectations: Language as Sense Making 

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

Specific Expectations: 

  • Learners are monitoring, reflecting on, and discussing processes for making sense of and creating texts.
  • Learners are strategically selecting and applying strategies and processes for making sense of and creating different types of text for different purposes and audiences.
  • Learners are using a variety of thinking processes to make sense of and respond to increasingly varied and complex text.
  • Learners are using and integrating background knowledge and sources of information purposefully to make sense of increasingly varied and complex text.

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Overall Expectations: Language as System 

  • Identify, analyze, and apply understandings of whole-part-whole relationships (e.g., function and relationship of parts within a whole design, cueing systems, fluency, word study).

Specific Expectations: 

  • Learners are using their understanding of a range of text structures and features to understand and communicate clearly and effectively.

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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 participating in, extending, and discussing creative processes for designing.
  • Learners are reconstructing, manipulating, and remixing existing texts or sets of texts to create new ideas, forms, purposes, and messages.
  • Learners are tapping into and combining experiences with ideas, images, and sounds from various sources to create something new.

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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 that one’s identities are influenced by various factors and change over time and contexts.
  • Learners are understanding that texts represent and promote particular beliefs, values, and ideas.
  • Learners are exploring multiple perspectives, points of view, and interpretations.
  • Learners are exploring their own voices to transform their identities, tell their personal narratives, and critically view their own and others’ texts.
  • Learners are collaborating to investigate challenging social issues, moral dilemmas, and possibilities for social justice.

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