Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Grade 6

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

  • Learners will communicate effectively and clearly respecting cultural contexts.

Specific Expectations:

  • Consider others’ responses and offer thoughtful opinions supported with evidence.

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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 text features in print and digital media to access information Independently
  • Use keywords effectively in a search engine to access relevant Information
  • Select relevant, dependable sources of information, with growing Independence
  • Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with growing independence
  • Combine information to enhance understanding, with growing Independence
  • Give credit to sources of information with guidance, with growing independence
  • Support and justify opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text.
  • Support and justify opinions with personal thoughts and feelings.
  • Recognize stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice with guidance.
  • Respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice with some guidance

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