Outcome Chart - Yukon - English Language Arts 8

Big Ideas

Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.
Everyone has a unique story to share.
Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us.
Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world.
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

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

Specific Expectations:

Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning

Specific Expectations: Create and Communicate (writing, speaking, presenting)

Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
Transform ideas and information to create original texts.