Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts Grade 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 4 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

  • Compare own and others’ understandings to reflect upon personal understandings
  • Explain preferences for particular forms and genres of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Connect new information and experiences with prior knowledge to construct meaning in different contexts
  • Express new concepts and understandings in own words, and explain personal opinions

MediaSmarts Resources

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
  • Set a purpose and discuss anticipated 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
  • Describe how groups are portrayed in texts (oral, print, and other media) from other communities
  • Talk about the purposes of the text genres and their corresponding forms (in oral, print, and other media texts)
  • Listen to, read, and view texts (oral, print, and other media) to understand how the techniques and elements interact to create effects
  • Listen to, read, and view texts (oral, print, and other media) to understand how the techniques and elements interact to create effects

MediaSmarts Resources

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

  • Categorize personal knowledge of a topic to determine information needs in own and group inquiry
  • Ask general and specific questions on topics using predetermined categories in own and group inquiry
  • Select and use a plan for gathering information for own and group inquiry
  • Use relevant information from a variety of sources to answer inquiry or research questions
  • Assess the usefulness of information for inquiry or research using pre-established criteria
  • Use a variety of tools to access information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to identify important information
  • Determine main and supporting ideas using prior knowledge, predictions, connections, inferences, and context cues
  • Examine collected information to identify categories or aspects of a topic that need more information
  • Review gathered information and questions, and add to knowledge gained from inquiry or research process

MediaSmarts Resources

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 and focus ideas on a topic using a variety of strategies
  • Create original texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Present and/or publish texts (oral, print, and other media)

MediaSmarts Resources

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 by resolving conflicts
  • Describe relationships between own and others’ ideas and experiences
  • Develop an awareness of diversity

MediaSmarts Resources