Outcome Chart - Yukon - English Language Arts 5

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 from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding
Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
Consider different purposes, audiences, and perspectives in exploring texts
Identify how differences in context, perspectives, and voice influence meaning in texts
Explain the role of language in personal, social, and cultural identity
Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
Respond to text in personal and creative ways
Show an increasing understanding of the role of organization in meaning

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

Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Use language in creative and playful ways to develop style
Transform ideas and information to create original texts