New Brunswick - English Language Arts 7

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Describe and contribute thoughts, feelings, and experiences and compare to those of their peers.

Achievement Indicators:

Describe observations, understandings, viewpoints, and perspectives

Compare and contrast observations, understandings, viewpoints, and perspectives that have been shared by others

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Skill Descriptor:

Defend and support ideas and opinions with evidence.

Achievement Indicators:

Discuss personal opinion and perspective using evidence

Explore difference of opinion, citing reasons based on personal experience

Use evidence to support, refute, and critique personal opinions and the opinions of others

Communicate persuasively citing evidence free from generalizations and bias

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Skill Descriptor:

Summarize and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions.

Achievement Indicators:

Select information that supports purpose

Use language to support ideas and arguments

Select and use language to persuade audience

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Skill Descriptor:

Use language of harmony and respect self-monitoring and adjusting as appropriate.

Achievement Indicators:

Describe helpful, respectful, and equitable language

Use language that demonstrates consideration for the feelings of others

Use language that is not hurtful or offensive

Identify examples of prejudice, stereotyping, or bias in oral language and the negative effect on individuals and cultures

Use bias-free language

Use inclusive language that respects gender identity

Use language that demonstrates cultural sensitivity and respect

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Big Idea: Exchanges

Skill Descriptor:

Respond personally and critically to a variety of text.

Achievement Indicators:

Respond to oral presentations and stories, and multi-modal text citing reactions, interpretations, and outstanding questions

Respond to oral presentations and stories and multi-modal text, providing thoughts and opinions, citing evidence

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Skill Descriptor:

Adjust interactions to reflect the situation, audience, and purpose.

Achievement Indicators:

Identify appropriate conventions for specific types of interactions

Use conversational conventions that are respectful of the needs, rights, and feelings of others

Engage in active listening

Communicate a next step or response to negotiate

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Big Idea: Reception

Skill Descriptor:

Critically reflect on the contributions of others.

Achievement Indicators:

Consider and respect ideas from the speaker’s point of view.

Recognize that spoken language reveals values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice

Understand how language is used to influence and manipulate

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Strand: Reading

Big Idea: Reading Comprehension

Skill Descriptor:

Examine information to critically construct literal and inferred meaning from a variety of text.

Achievement Indicators:

Interpret most text features and explain how they enhance the meaning of the text

Explain how key story or text elements affect the plot or main idea

Demonstrate the ability to search for and locate information quickly and with accuracy

Detect prejudice, stereotyping and bias and how language is used to manipulate, persuade, or control

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Skill Descriptor:

Analyze and respond personally and critically to a range of texts across genres, interests, and complexities.

Achievement Indicators:

Express and support personal reactions, preferences for, and opinions about particular texts, authors, illustrators, and genres with details/examples

Explain interpretations, reactions, and connections to text

Evaluate a writer’s style/technique and its effectiveness

Distinguish between claims based on facts/reason and claims based on opinion by citing appropriate evidence

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Big Idea: Text Analysis and Criticality

Skill Descriptor:

Independently select, read, and construct meaning from a range of texts representing all voices.

Achievement Indicators:

Explain preferences and choice of reading material

Construct meaning from a variety of text forms, including print and non-print texts

Preview, interpret, and locate information using text features (pictorial, typographical, and organizational)

Identify key story elements of a variety of narrative texts

Explain how main ideas are related to the theme of a text

Distinguish between main ideas and supporting details

Explain how the author’s style/technique and use of text features help readers construct meaning

Discuss how purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of text forms and genres contribute to understanding

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Skill Descriptor:

Analyze the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.

Achievement Indicators:

Use context clues, prior knowledge, and knowledge of forms/features to make predictions/assumptions

Refer to relevant textual details and/or features when inferring

Describe relationships among characters and effect on plot/subplots or overall theme in narrative texts

Interpret relationships among ideas to draw conclusions or make comparisons

Support responses with relevant details

Describe the relationships between language, topic, genre, purpose, context, and audience

Recognize that texts need to be assessed for bias

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Strand: Representations

Big Idea: Process

Skill Descriptor:

Develop strategies to enhance clarity in written works.

Achievement Indicators:

Select and develop a topic within a chosen form demonstrating an awareness of audience; some writing may combine text forms (hybrids)

Write with purpose and understand the influence and power of the writer

Gather ideas from a variety of sources and use a framework (e.g., web, graphic organizer) to sort and classify the information/ideas, organize perspectives, and make new connections

Apply knowledge of copyright/plagiarism (including the use of A.I.)

Draft a piece of writing making critical choices about ideas/content based on the purpose and intended audience

Use a variety of publishing formats (e.g., books, pamphlets, posters, websites) with appropriate text and text features

Explain form choice as it pertains to purpose and intended audience