Outcome Chart – British Columbia – French Immersion Language Arts (FILA) 7

Big Ideas

  • Expressing our thoughts enables us to situate ourselves in relation to our own and others’ cultures.
  • Considering the feelings evoked by a message and its unspoken elements allows us to construct the meaning of a message.
  • The form of a text plays as important a role as its content in conveying a message and creating a desired effect.

Curricular Competencies

Exploring and Reflecting

  • Identify implicit information in a text, relying on specific cues and prior knowledge
  • Identify the structure of a text to determine how it is organized and how its ideas are connected

Creating and Communicating

  • Respond to a text by identifying passages that evoke feelings and emotions
  • Summarize the main idea in a text in a clear, well-organized manner
  • Write clear, coherent texts, following the structures being studied
  • In one’s work, revise the ideas, organization and grammar to improve the message

Content

Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:

  • Communication strategies:
    • Argumentation
    • Clarification
    • Reformulation
    • Consideration of other people’s perspectives
  • Text organization:
    • Structure of informational texts
  • Revision strategies

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