Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts 1202

Overall Expectation

GCO 1: Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

Specific Expectations

    1. identify ideas and information using active listening skills
    2. ask relevant questions to develop ideas about issues
    3. respond to questions by providing reliable support for ideas
    4. advocate a point of view using supporting evidence
    5. interpret ideas and information from speaking and listening activities

Overall Expectation

GCO 2: Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.

Specific Expectations

    1. use a range of strategies that contribute to effective informal communication
    2. evaluate the range of strategies that contribute to effective informal communication
    3. adjust language and delivery when responding personally and critically
    4. use a range of strategies associated with effective formal communication
    5. evaluate the strategies associated with effective formal communication

Overall Expectation

GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.

Specific Expectations

3.1 explain how spoken language reveals ideas, values, and attitudes

3.2 evaluate how spoken language influences others

3.3 analyze the positions of others

3.4 use a variety of communication styles appropriately

Overall Expectation

GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

Specific Expectations

4.1 identify and select texts that meet their needs and interests

4.2 analyze how text features are used to create meaning and achieve different purposes

4.3 use a variety of reading and viewing processes and strategies to construct meaning from texts

4.4 use specific strategies to clarify confusing parts of a text

Overall Expectation

GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

Specific Expectations

5.2 analyze appropriate information from a variety of reliable sources

5.3 organize information from selected sources

5.5 share relevant information

Overall Expectation

GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.

Specific Expectations

6.1 justify a personal point of view about issues, messages, and situations within texts

6.2 analyze their personal points of view about issues, messages, and situations in texts

6.3 recognize more than one interpretation of a text

Overall Expectation

GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.

Specific Expectations

  1. examine the different stylistic techniques of texts that contribute to meaning and effect
  2. respond critically with support to content, form, and structure of texts
  3. explain the impact of literary and media devices on the understanding of a text
  4. explain how texts reveal ideologies and identities
  5. evaluate the portrayal of cultural identities in texts

Overall Expectation

GCO 8: Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations

Specific Expectations

  1. apply a variety of effective strategies when writing and representing
  2. identify how values and attitudes are revealed in the texts they create

Overall Expectation

GCO 9: Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.

Specific Expectations

9.1 create a range of texts both independently and collaboratively

9.2 use the appropriate form, style, and content for specific audiences and purposes

9.3 use a range of strategies to engage the audience

Overall Expectation

GCO 10: 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

10.1 develop their ability to effectively communicate meaning

10.3 use information from a variety of sources to construct and communicate meaning

Lessons that meet 1201 expectations