Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador English Language Arts curriculum, Grade 8, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Speaking and Listening

Overall Expectations

GCO 1: Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

Specific Expectations

1.1 reflect upon the contribution of others’ ideas during discussion
1.2 ask questions of others for clarification
1.3 respond to questions to provide accuracy, relevancy, and validity
1.4 express a point of view and support it with personal examples and evidence from various sources
1.5 use active listening skills to interpret main ideas and the relevancy of supporting details

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Overall Expectations

GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.

3.2 express ideas and opinions in a manner that reflects sensitivity and shows respect to others
3.3 recognize that values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice can be reflected in oral language
3.4 examine how oral language can be used to influence and manipulate

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Reading and Viewing

Overall Expectations

GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual text.

Specific Expectations

4.1 identify and select texts that meet their needs and interests
4.2 explain how authors use text features to create meaning and achieve different purposes
4.3 use a variety of reading and viewing processes and strategies to construct meaning from texts
4.4 assess personal processes and strategies for reading and viewing various texts

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Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

Overall Expectations

GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

Specific Expectations

5.1 identify relevant or interesting topics for further inquiry
5.2 evaluate the reliability of information from various sources
5.3 compare information from a variety of sources
5.4 use effective inquiry approaches and strategies

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Overall Expectations

GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.

Specific Expectations

6.1 use examples and supporting ideas to explain personal responses to texts
6.2 explain personal points of view about texts using relevant evidence from the text(s)

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Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

Overall Expectations

GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre

Specific Expectations

7.1 recognize that texts can be biased
7.2 question a text’s language, form and genre
7.3 recognize the tools text creators use to achieve different purposes
7.4 describe the impact that text form, content and structure have on meaning
7.5 demonstrate an awareness that values and personal experiences influence understanding of and critical responses to texts
7.6 describe the portrayal of culture and reality in texts

MediaSmarts Resources

Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)

Writing and Representing

Overall Expectations

GCO 8: Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.

Specific Expectations

8.1 experiment with a variety of strategies as language learners
8.2 use writing and representing to extend, explore, and reflect on ideas, values, and attitudes
8.3 assess strategies that help them learn and describe their personal growth as language learners
8.4 integrate stylistic effects in writing and representing to create interest

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Overall Expectations

GCO 9: Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.

Specific Expectations

9.1 create a range of texts
9.2 experiment with a variety of writing and representing forms and styles to suit purpose(s) and intended audience(s)
9.3 use appropriate feedback to inform future work

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Overall Expectations

GCO 10: Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.

Specific Expectations

10.1 choose writing and representing strategies that help create a variety of texts
10.2 use the conventions of written language
10.3 use various technologies in communicating for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences
10.4 demonstrate a commitment to the processes involved in creating texts

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