Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Grade 5

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

  • Learners will communicate effectively and clearly respecting cultural contexts.

Specific Expectations:

  • Explain ideas and opinions with supporting details, and respond to others’ questions and ideas.

MediaSmarts Resources

Overall Expectations: Reading and viewing

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

Specific Expectations:

  • Use a variety of text features in print and digital media to access information with increasing independence
  • Refine keyword choices in a search engine to access relevant Information
  • Select relevant dependable sources of information, with beginning independence
  • Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with beginning independence
  • Combine information to enhance understanding, with beginning independence
  • Give credit to sources of information, with beginning independence
  • Support and explain opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text
  • Begin to recognize stereotyping, bias and/or prejudice with guidance
  • Respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice with guidance
  • Recognize and interpret authors’ viewpoints providing evidence from the text and personal experiences.

MediaSmarts Resources