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

Foundations of Language

Overall Expectations:

A1: Learners will apply listening, speaking and non-verbal communication skills and strategies to understand and communicate meaning for various audiences, purposes, and contexts.

Specific Expectations:

A1.1 Use listening strategies to understand oral communication.

A1.2 Use oral and non-verbal communication to express ideas and emotions.

A1.3 Use explicitly taught vocabulary, syntax, and grammar to communicate ideas.

Social Relationships 10

Specific Expectations: 

identify and demonstrate perspective taking 

demonstrate strategies to handle rejection, teasing, and bullying behaviour 

identify and apply, when appropriate, strategies to handle rumors and gossip 

identify and demonstrate appropriate ways to communicate with friends through phone calls, text messages and other social media 

demonstrate understanding of, and strategies to manage emotion regulation 

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English 12

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English 12 / English/Communications 12 / African Heritage 12

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Advanced English Grade 12

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Advanced English Grade 12

Outcome Chart – Nova Scotia – Communications 12

The Communications 12 course has the same Overall and Specific Expectations as the English Language Arts course, but is “different in terms of pace, scope, emphases and resources.”

These differences include:

Promoting Ethical Online Behaviours with Your Kids

Most kids live as much of their lives online as they do offline. But on the Internet there are lots of moral and ethical choices that don’t have to be made offline. These tips lay out ways you can help your children develop a moral compass to guide them through those choices.

Outcome Chart – Nova Scotia – English 12: African Heritage

The English 12: African Heritage course has the same Overall and Specific Expectations as the English Language Arts course “while encompassing the experience, study, and appreciation of language, literature, media, and communication from an African heritage perspective.”

These differences include:

Teen Fact-Checking Network

Videos: 2025

The following fact-checking videos have been produced by teens for teens. The viral claims they chose to fact-check touch on a range of topics from the environment, health, science and food to beauty products, social media trends and even presumed “weird” local bylaws that caught their attention.

Navigating parenting advice in the digital age

I became a parent before we all had access to smartphones. That makes me sound (and maybe) feel old, but I share that to set the stage for my personal parenting experience.