Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts - Creative Writing 10

Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Explore how language constructs personal and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context
Use acknowledgments and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Transform ideas and information to create original texts.

Text forms and text genres
Text features and structures
- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- protocols related to ownership of
  First Peoples oral texts
Strategies and processes
- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
Language features, structures, and conventions
- language features
- elements of style
- exploration of voice
- usage and conventions
- literary elements and devices