Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Grade 4

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

  • Learners will communicate effectively and clearly respecting cultural contexts.

Specific Expectations:

  • express and explain opinions, and respond to questions and reactions of others

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Overall Expectations: Reading and viewing

  • Learners will select, interpret, and combine information from culturally diverse contexts.
  • Learners will respond personally and critically to a range of culturally diverse texts.

Specific Expectations:

  • Begin to refine keyword choices in a search engine to access relevant information
  • Select relevant, dependable sources of information, with guidance
  • Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with guidance
  • Combine information to enhance understanding, with guidance
  • Give credit to sources of information, with guidance
  • Begin to ask critical-thinking questions to clarify understanding, with guidance
  • Support opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text
  • Begin to develop an awareness of stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice, with guidance.
  • Begin to respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice with guidance
  • Recognize authors’ viewpoints providing evidence from the text and personal experiences.

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