Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 8 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

It is expected that students will:

General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others

Specific Expectations

  • Listen critically and discuss the differences in interpretations and understandings
  • Pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and film makers, including seeking recommendations from others
  • Reflect on prior knowledge and experiences, and structure and restructure ideas and information in meaningful ways, in order to clarify, extend and revise understandings
  • Summarize, explain, and represent personal viewpoints in clear and purposeful ways

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General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts, through a process

Specific Expectations

  • Make and explain connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge and texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Select and/or adapt and use appropriate comprehension strategies to construct, revise, and explain understanding of texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning within and across texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Explain how vocabulary, language structure, and context help readers construct meaning of oral, print, and other media texts
  • Explore a variety of oral, print, and other media text
  • Respond to oral, print, and other media texts creatively and critically
  • Identify and compare ideas, points of view, and bias, in and across texts
  • Examine the relationship between genres/forms and audience/purpose in texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Compare how techniques and elements are used in texts (oral, print, and other media)

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General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process

Specific Expectations

  • Identify prior knowledge of, and prior experiences and issues related to, a topic to choose a focus for own and group inquiry
  • Develop broad and specific questions to establish a purpose for seeking information on a topic in own and group inquiry
  • Create and/or adapt and reflect on a plan to collect, record, and synthesize information in own and group inquiry
  • Identify relevant primary and secondary sources to answer inquiry or research question
  • Develop and use criteria to evaluate usefulness and reliability of, and perspectives within, sources
  • Use text features and reference tools to identify relevant information
  • Select and use strategies to understand and relate information in texts (oral, print, and other media)
  • Record key ideas and details; cite sources appropriately
  • Explain relevance, importance, perspectives, and gaps in information within and across sources
  • Incorporate new information with prior knowledge, and adjust inquiry to reflect changing perspectives

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General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process

Specific Expectations

  • Generate ideas and develop a topic using a variety of strategies
  • Demonstrate understanding of elements of texts when creating oral, print, and other media texts
  • Present and/or publish texts (oral, print, and other media)

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General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society

Specific Expectations

  • Make decisions collaboratively to modify or create group processes for specific purposes in order to work in a variety of partnerships and groups
  • Compare personal reactions to, and ways of thinking about, a variety of experiences and texts (oral, print, and other media) with those of others
  • Identify and describe social issues related to diversity

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Lessons

Student Tutorials