Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts Grade 6

Speaking and Listening

Overall Expectations

GCO 2: Students will be expected

  • to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.

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

Specific Expectations

Students will:

  • contribute to and respond constructively in conversation, small group and whole group discussion
  • detect examples of prejudice, stereotyping or bias in oral language, recognize their negative effect on individuals and cultures and attempt to use bias-free language

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Reading and Viewing

Overall Expectations

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

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

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

Specific Expectations

Students will:

  • use and integrate the various cueing systems and a variety of strategies with increasing independence to construct meaning
  • reflect on and discuss their own processes and strategies in reading and viewing
  • use a range of reference texts and a data base or electronic search to facilitate the selection process
  • recognize that facts can be presented to suit an author’s purpose and point of view
  • consider information from alternative perspectives
  • identify the conventions and structure of a variety of print and media texts and genres
  • make connections with the purpose of each text or genre
  • respond critically to texts
  • apply a growing range of strategies to analyze and evaluate a text
  • demonstrate growing awareness that all texts reflect a purpose and a perspective
  • compare alternate points of view
  • analyze the impact of language used in texts
  • examine how responses to texts can affect social change

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Writing and Representing

Overall Expectations

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.

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

Students will:

  • explore ways to develop ideas
  • reflect on themselves as text creators
  • create written and media texts using an increasing variety of forms
  • assess the influence that audience and purpose have during the creation of texts

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