Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - English Language Arts 8

Speaking and Listening

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.

Specific Expectations

  • Recognize that values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice can be reflected in spoken language
  • Examine how spoken language can be used to influence and manipulate

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Lessons

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Reading and Viewing

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

Specific Expectations

  • Evaluate the reliability of information from various sources
  • Compare information from a variety of sources
  • Use effective research approaches and strategies

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Educational Game

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre.

Specific Expectations

  • Recognize that texts can be biased
  • Demonstrate an awareness that values and personal experiences influence understanding of and critical responses to texts
  • Describe the portrayal of culture and reality in texts

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Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Writing and Representing

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.

Specific Expectations

  • Choose the writing and representing strategies that help create a variety of texts
  • Use various technologies in communicating for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences

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Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)