Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts Grade 8

Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

Discover and Explore 

  • review, reread and reflect on oral, print and other media texts to explore, confirm or revise understanding
  • discuss and respond to ways that forms of oral, print and other media texts enhance or constrain the development and communication of ideas, information and experiences
  • pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers and filmmakers

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Student Tutorials 

Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information

Select and Focus 

  • develop and use criteria for evaluating the usefulness, currency and reliability of information for a particular research project

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Backgrounders 

Educational Game 

Student Tutorials 

Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others

Respect Others and Strengthen Community 

  • compare own with others’ understanding of people, cultural traditions and values portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
  • clarify and broaden perspectives and opinions, by examining the ideas of others
  • compare ways in which oral, print and other media texts reflect specific elements of cultures or periods in history

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Student Tutorials