Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 6

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 6 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

  • Engage in exploratory communication to discover own interpretation and understandings
  • Explain preferences for particular forms and genres of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Reflect on prior knowledge and experiences to arrive at new understandings
  • Explain personal viewpoints in clear and meaningful ways, and revise previous understandings

 

MediaSmarts Resources

Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

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; select and use appropriate comprehension strategies to construct, confirm, revise, and explain understanding
  • Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning in 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
  • Identify bias and stereotype in texts (oral, print, and other media) to extend personal perspective of cultural representations and real life
  • Discuss the strengths and limits of various forms and genres of 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
  • Explain how authors develop voice through vocabulary, descriptive and figurative language, techniques, and elements in a variety of oral, print and other media texts

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Educational Games

Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

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 and focus personal knowledge of a topic to determine information needs in own and group inquiry
  • Formulate relevant questions to focus information needs in own and group inquiry
  • Use a combination of primary and secondary sources to answer inquiry or research questions
  • Recognize that information serves different purposes, and determine its usefulness for inquiry or research focus using pre-established criteria
  • Use a variety of tools to access information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to identify relevant information
  • Use organizational patterns in texts (oral, print, and other media) to construct meaning and gather information
  • Organize information and ideas using a variety of strategies and techniques
  • Make notes on a topic, combining information from more than one source; reference sources appropriately
  • Evaluate the appropriateness of information for a particular form, audience, and purpose; identify gaps in information collected and gather additional information
  • Relate gathered information to prior knowledge to reach conclusions or develop points of view; set goals for further inquiry

MediaSmarts Resources

Educational Games

Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

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)
  • 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
  • Assess personal contributions to group processes, set personal goals for enhancing work with others, and monitor group processes
  • Compare personal ways of responding and thinking with those of others
  • Develop an opinion about diversity

MediaSmarts Resources

Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)