Speaking and Listening |
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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 describe, share, and discuss thoughts, feelings, and experiences and consider others’ ideas ask and respond to questions to clarify information and to explore possibilities or solutions to problems express and explain opinions and respond to the questions and reactions of others listen critically to others’ ideas and opinions 1.0 describe personal experiences with supporting details 2.0 demonstrate listening strategies for different situations and purposes 3.0 use various types of questions to clarify information and ideas 4.0 support responses to questions 5.0 communicate concisely and sequentially |
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Overall Expectations GCO 2: Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically Specific Expectations participate in conversation, small group and whole-group discussion; understand when to speak, when to listen adapt volume, projection, facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to the speaking occasion give and follow instructions and respond to questions and directions engage in and respond to a variety of oral presentations and other texts 8.0 participate actively in conversations 9.0 demonstrate effective presentation skills 10.0 respond personally to information, ideas, and opinions 11.0 respond critically to information, ideas, and opinions |
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Overall Expectations GCO 3: Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose. Specific Expectations use basic courtesies and conventions of conversation in group work and co-operative play demonstrate a growing awareness that different kinds of language are appropriate to different situations 14.0 demonstrate respect and sensitivity in oral communications |
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Reading and Viewing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 4: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual text. Specific Expectations select, independently and with teacher assistance, texts appropriate to their interests and learning needs read widely and experience a variety of children’s literature use pictorial, typographical, and organizational features of written text to determine content, locate topics, and obtain information use and integrate, with support, the various cueing systems (pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic) and a range of strategies to construct meaning describe their own reading and viewing processes and strategies 16.0 select a variety of text types, forms, and genres appropriate for specific purposes 17.0 use text features before, during, and after reading to help construct meaning 18.0 use strategies to make sense of texts 19.0 reflect on their development in reading and viewing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 5: Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies. Specific Expectations answer, with assistance, their questions and those of others by seeking information from a variety of texts
20.0 formulate questions that lead to inquiry 21.0 select relevant information from a variety of sources to seek answers to questions 22.0 organize information 23.0 share organized information |
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Overall Expectations GCO 6: Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts. Specific Expectations make personal connections to texts and describe, share, and discuss their reactions and emotions express and explain opinions about texts and types of texts, and the work of authors and illustrators, demonstrating an increasing awareness of the reasons for their opinions 24.0 make connections from text to-self, text-to-text, and text-to world 25.0 express opinions about a variety of texts 26.0 support responses using text information and personal experiences |
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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 question information presented in print and visual texts - use a personal knowledge base as a frame of reference identify some different types of print and media texts - recognize some of their language conventions and text characteristics - recognize that these conventions and characteristics help them understand what they read and view respond critically to texts - formulate questions as well as understandings - identify the point of view in a text and demonstrate awareness of whose voices/ positions are and are not being expressed - discuss the text from the perspectives of their own realities and experiences - identify instances of prejudice, bias, and stereotyping 27.0 interpret the intended messages in a range of texts 28.0 respond critically to intentional and unintentional messages within texts 29.0 provide alternative perspectives to texts |
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Writing and Representing |
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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 create written and media texts using a variety of forms - experiment with the combination of writing with other media to increase the impact of their presentations demonstrate some awareness of purpose and audience - make choices about form for a specific purpose/audience • consider their readers’/ listeners’/viewers’ questions, comments, and other responses in assessing their work and extending their learning 32.0 use various text types and forms in writing and representations 33.0 create text types and forms for specific purposes and audiences 34.0 seek feedback in the creation and further development of texts
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Overall Expectations 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 • experiment with a range of prewriting, drafting, editing, proofreading and presentation strategies • use some conventions of written language • experiment with technology in writing and other forms of representing • demonstrate engagement with the creation of pieces of writing and other representations • select, organize, and combine relevant information, with assistance, from at least two sources, without copying verbatim, to construct and communicate meaning 35.0 use a variety of strategies to write and represent effectively 36.0 reflect on their development in writing and representing
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