Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Primary (K)

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

  • Learners will interact using effective oral language skills considering audience, purpose, and situation.

Specific Expectations:

  • begin to ask and respond to questions and seek information
  • describe a personal experience with at least one detail
  • engage in small- and whole-group conversation
  • begin to demonstrate that different kinds of language are appropriate to different situations, dependent upon audience and purpose
  • begin to develop an awareness of respectful and non-hurtful vocabulary choices

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Overall Expectations: Reading and viewing

  • Learners will demonstrate a variety of ways to comprehend and select from a range of culturally diverse texts.
  • 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:

  • make personal connections to understand a text
  • find information in simple print and digital texts
  • talk about a personal reaction to a print and/or digital text (e.g., favourite part, character)
  • begin to develop an understanding and respect for diversity
  • back up an opinion with prior knowledge and/or experiences
  • begin to ask questions of text
  • begin to recognize different points of view

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Overall Expectations: Writing and Representing

  • Learners will use writing and other forms of representation including, digital texts, to explore, clarify and reflect on their thoughts feeling and experiences and learnings.
  • Learners will create text including digital collaboratively and independently using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.

Specific Expectations:

  • begin to talk about word choice for specific reasons
  • explain the reason for the writing (e.g., to remember an important event, to explain what happened, to thank a guest speaker, to share an idea with a classmate)
  • begin to use role plays to convey meaning (other ways of representing)

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