Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts - Spoken Language 10

Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Explore the role of personal and social contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Explore how language constructs personal and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Explore appropriate spoken language formats for intended purposes
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create spoken language
and other texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently
and as appropriate to the context
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Transform ideas and information to create original texts

Text forms and text genres, including creative spoken forms

Text features and structures

Strategies and processes

Language features, structures, and conventions