User needs and interests drive the design process.
Social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design.
Technologies help us accomplish many specific tasks in our lives.
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied design
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: Respond literally, inferentially, and critically to the purpose, structure and characteristics of texts (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia).
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: Respond literally, inferentially, and critically to the purpose, structure and characteristics of text, demonstrating increasing knowledge of genre and form (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia).
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: Respond literally, inferentially, and critically to the purpose, structure and characteristics of texts (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia).
In Prince Edward Island, “English language arts encompasses the experience, study, and appreciation of language, literature, media, and communication.” The curriculum defines a text as “any language event, whether oral, written, visual, or digital. In this sense, a conversation, a poem, a novel, an online exchange, a poster, a music video, or a multimedia production are all considered texts.
SCO 5: Use personal strategies after reading to interpret the meaning of text.
Students who have achieved this outcome should be able to:
a. describe personal reactions
b. retell and summarize events and/or information
d. distinguish main ideas and supporting details
e. make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections
h. generate questions for further reflection or research
i. reflect on meaning making-processes
SCO 5: Use personal strategies after reading to interpret the meaning of text.
Students who have achieved this outcome should be able to:
a. describe personal reactions
b. retell and summarize events and/or information
d. distinguish main ideas and supporting details
e. make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections
h. generate questions for further reflection or research
i. reflect on meaning making-processes
The Language grades 4-6 curriculum released in 2023 is based in part on the principle that “a modern English curriculum reflects emerging technologies and their impact on communication and digital media literacy,” which is defined as combining “the ability to combine the multimodal properties of media literacy with the technological capabilities of digital literacy.”
The Language grades 7-8 curriculum released in 2023 is based in part on the principle that “a modern English curriculum reflects emerging technologies and their impact on communication and digital media literacy,” which is defined as combining “the ability to combine the multimodal properties of media literacy with the technological capabilities of digital literacy.”
The Language grades 1-3 curriculum released in 2023 is based in part on the principle that “a modern English curriculum reflects emerging technologies and their impact on communication and digital media literacy,” which is defined as combining “the ability to combine the multimodal properties of media literacy with the technological capabilities of digital literacy.”