Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts Grade 2
Speaking and Listening
Overall Expectations
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
1.0 describe personal experiences orally
2.0 listen in a variety of situations for different purposes
3.0 ask questions to seek more information
5.0 retell events and familiar stories in sequence
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Lessons
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- So Many Choices!
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically
Specific Expectations
8.0 participate in conversations
9.0 engage in oral presentations
10.0 respond personally to information, ideas, and opinions
11.0 respond critically to information, ideas, and opinions
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Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Introducing TV Families
- TV Stereotypes
Overall Expectations
GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
14.0 demonstrate social conventions
15.0 show an understanding of how word choice affects the feelings of others
16.0 use verbal and non-verbal cues suitable for specific situations, audiences and purposes
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Reading and Writing
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
Specific Expectations
17.0 select a variety of texts, forms, and genres appropriate for specific purposes
18.0 use text features before, during, and after reading to help construct meaning
19.0 use strategies to make sense of texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Looking at Food Advertising
- So Many Choices!
- TV Stereotypes
Interactive Resources
Overall Expectations
GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
Specific Expectations
20.0 formulate questions that lead to inquiry
21.0 combine information from a variety of sources to seek answers to questions
22.0 share relevant information from selected sources
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Overall Expectations
GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.
Specific Expectations
23.0 make connections from text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
24.0 express opinions about a variety of texts
25.0 support responses using text information and personal experiences
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Introducing TV Families
- TV Stereotypes
Overall Expectations
GCO 7: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
Specific Expectations
26.0 identify the intended messages in a range of texts
27.0 respond critically to intentional and unintentional messages within texts
28.0 discuss alternative perspectives to texts
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Healthy Food Web
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Representing Ourselves Online
- TV Stereotypes
Interactive Resources
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.
Specific Expectations
29.0 express feelings and imaginative ideas through writing and representing
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Lessons
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Rules of the Game
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
Overall Expectations
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
31.0 use various text types and forms in writing and representations
32.0 understand that texts are created for a purpose
33.0 create text types and forms for specific purposes and audiences
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