Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 5

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 5 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

It is expected that students will:

General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.

Specific Expectations

  • Seek others’ viewpoints to reflect on personal understanding
  • Explain preferences for particular forms and genres of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Use prior knowledge and experiences selectively to make sense of new information in a variety of contexts
  • Explain the importance of linking personal perceptions to others’ understandings

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Lessons

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, through a process.

Specific Expectations

  • Use prior knowledge and connections between self and texts (oral, print, and other media) to expand personal understanding
  • Anticipate meaning of oral, print, and other media texts; use comprehension strategies to construct, confirm, revise, and explain understanding
  • Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning in oral, print, and other media texts
  • Use vocabulary, language structure, and context to construct meaning of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Explore a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Respond to oral, print, and other media texts creatively and critically
  • Develop personal perspective of cultural representations in texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Talk about the relationship between genre/form and audience/purpose in texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Listen to, read, and view texts (oral, print, and other media) to understand how the techniques and elements interact to create effects
  • Talk about authors’ use of voice, vocabulary, elements or techniques in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts

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General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process.

Specific Expectations

  • Summarize personal knowledge of a topic in categories to determine information needs in own and group inquiry
  • Formulate general and specific questions to identify information needs in own and group inquiry
  • Gather and record ideas and information using a plan for own and group inquiry
  • Use relevant information from a variety of sources to answer inquiry or research questions
  • Determine the usefulness of information for inquiry or research purpose and focus using pre-established criteria
  • Use a variety of tools to access information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to identify key ideas
  • Recognize organizational patterns in texts (oral, print, and other media) to construct meaning and gather information
  • Organize information and ideas into categories using a variety of strategies
  • Record information in own words; cite authors and titles alphabetically and provide publication dates of sources
  • Recognize gaps in the information gathered and locate additional information needed for a particular form, audience, and purpose
  • Assess information and knowledge gained through the inquiry or research process; generate new questions for further inquiry

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Lessons

Educational Games

General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process.

Specific Expectations

  • Generate ideas and develop a topic using a variety of strategies
  • Use appropriate form (organizational structure, audience, purpose) to organize ideas and information
  • Create original texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Use pre-established criteria to focus conversations about own and others’ texts and representations (oral, print, and other media)
  • Write legibly and fluently while continuing to develop proficiency with keyboarding and word processing; use related vocabulary
  • Present and/or publish texts (oral, print, and other media)

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General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society.

Specific Expectations

  • Work in a variety of partnerships and groups to follow pre- established group processes through collaborative decision making
  • Acknowledge differing responses to common experiences
  • Describe how diversity is honoured and celebrated

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