Grades 3, 4, 5, 6,

Strand A - Literacy Connections and Applications

A1.1 - Receptive and Expressive communication - Explain how transferable skills can be used to support communication in various cultural, social, Linguistic, and domain-specific contexts, and apply them when reading, listening to, viewing, and creating texts of various forms. (Elements of Design presentation and extension activities)

A1.2 - Student Agency and Engagement - Explain how transferable skills help to express their voice and be engaged in their learning, and plan the next steps to develop their capabilities and potential. (Extension activities)

A2.5 - Media, Audience and Production - demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of a text, the intended audience and the purpose for production (Extension activities)

A2.6 - Innovation and Design – select and use appropriate digital and media tools to support stages of the design process and to develop creative solutions to authentic, real-world problems by developing innovative solutions. (Extension activities)

A3.1 - Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning – Explain how the knowledge and skills developed in this grade to support learning in various subject areas and identify some ways this learning can be used in everyday life, and describe how they enhance understanding and communication. (Extension activities)

Strand B - Foundations of Language

B1.3 - Identify the purpose and audience for speaking in formal and informal contexts, and use appropriate speaking strategies, including paraphrasing and restating, to communicate clearly and coherently. (Extension activities)

B1.4 - Identify and use oral and non-verbal communication strategies, including expression, gestures and body language, and explain how these strategies help them to understand or communicate ideas and meaning. (Extension activities)

B1.5 - Use appropriate work choice, including new vocabulary, varied adjectives and adverbs to elaborate, a variety of sentence types, and cohesive sentences, during formal and informal communication to support audience comprehension. (Extension activities)

Strand C - Understanding and Responding

C1.4 -Visual Elements of Texts – Explain how images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate and contribute to the meaning in a variety of texts. (Extension activities)

C3.8 -Reflecting on Learning – Identify the critical thinking skills they used to analyze and evaluate various texts, and how these skills have helped them better understand texts. (Extension activities)

Strand D - Understanding and Responding

D2.3 - Voice – Establish a personal voice in their texts, using varied language and elsements of style to express their thoughts, feelings and opinions about the topic, and using a tone appropriate to the form and genre. (Extension activities)

Grade 9

Strand A - Literacy Connections and Applications

Overall Expectation - A2. - Digital Media Literacy

A2.5 – Media, Audience and Production – demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of a text, the intended audience and the purpose for production

A2.6 – Innovation and Design – select and use appropriate digital and media tools to support stages of the design process and address authentic, relevant, real-world problems by developing and proposing innovative solutions

Overall Expectation – A3 – Applications, Connections and Contributions

A3.1 – Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning – Explain how the knowledge and skills developed in this course support learning in various subject

Strand B - Foundations of Language

Overall Expectation – B1 – Oral and Non-Verbal Communication

B1.5 – Use precise and descriptive word choice, including domain-specific vocabulary from various subjects, and cohesive and coherent sentences, during formal and informal communication to support audience comprehension.

Strand C - Understanding and Responding

Overall Expectation C1 – Knowledge About Texts

C1.4 – Visual Elements of Texts – Explain how images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate and contribute to the meaning in a variety of texts.

Overall Expectation C3 – Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.8 – Reflecting on Learning – Assess the effectiveness of the critical thinking skills they used when analyzing and evaluating various texts, and set goals to improve their use.

Strand D - Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts

Overall Expectation D2 – Creating Texts

D2.3 – Voice – Establish an identifiable voice in their texts, modifying language, style and tone to suit the form, genre, audience and purpose, and express their thoughts, feelings, and opinions about the topic clearly.