Canadian Academic Guidelines
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Use language in creative and playful ways to develop style
Unit 2: Descriptive Writing
Unit 4: Narrative Writing
Unit 5: Poetry
Unit 7: Descriptive Writing
Unit 9: Narrative Writing
Unit 10: Poetry
Communicate in sentences and paragraphs, applying conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Develop and apply expanding word knowledge
Throughout All Units
Use oral storytelling processes
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text evidence
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 6: Informative Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Paragraph structure
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Sentence structure and grammar
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Use language in creative and playful ways to develop style
Unit 2: Descriptive Writing
Unit 4: Narrative Writing
Unit 5: Poetry
Unit 7: Descriptive
Unit 9: Narrative Writing
Unit 10: Poetry
Communicate in sentences and paragraphs, applying conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Develop and apply expanding word knowledge
Throughout All Units
Use oral storytelling processes
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text evidence
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 6: Informative Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Paragraphing
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Sentence structure and grammar
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to
purpose, audience, and message
Throughout All Units
Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose,
and message
Throughout All Units
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text evidence
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 6: Informative Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Paragraphing
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Language Variety
Throughout All Units
Sentence structure and grammar
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Presentation Techniques
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to
purpose, audience, and message
Throughout All Units
Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose,
and message
Throughout All Units
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text argument
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Paragraphing
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Language Variety
Throughout All Units
Syntax and sentence fluency
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Presentation Techniques
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to
purpose, audience, and message
Throughout All Units
Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose,
and message
Throughout All Units
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text elements of visual/graphic texts
Story/text relevance, accuracy, reliability
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Multi-paragraphing
Throughout All Units
Language usage and context
Throughout All Units
Elements of style
Throughout All Units
Syntax and sentence fluency
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Presentation Techniques
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
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
Throughout All Units
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to
purpose, audience, and message
Throughout All Units
Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Throughout All Units
Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose,
and message
Throughout All Units
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Express an opinion and support it with credible evidence
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Story/text forms, functions and genres
Throughout All Units
Story/text features
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary elements
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Throughout All Units
Story/text elements of visual/graphic texts
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Features of oral language
Multi-paragraphing
Throughout All Units
Language usage and context
Throughout All Units
Elements of style
Throughout All Units
Syntax and sentence fluency
Throughout All Units
Conventions
Throughout All Units
Presentation Techniques
Rhetorical Devices
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Connotation and Denotation
Unit 1: Informative Writing
Unit 2: Descriptive Writing
Unit 3: Persuasive Writing
Unit 6: Informative Writing
Unit 7: Descriptive Writing
Unit 8: Persuasive Writing
Curricular Competencies: Students are expected to...
Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Unit 3: Literary Studies
Unit 8: Literary Studies
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact
Throughout All Units
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Unit 5: Spoken Language
Unit 10: Spoken Language
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Throughout All Units
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Unit 1: Composition
Unit 3: Literary Studies
Unit 6: Composition
Unit 8: Literary Studies
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context
Throughout All Units
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Unit 1: Composition
Unit 3: Literary Studies
Unit 4: New Media
Unit 6: Composition
Unit 8: Literary Studies
Unit 9: New Media
Transform ideas and information to create original texts
Throughout All Units
Content: Students are expected to know the following...
Text forms and genres
Throughout All Units
Text features and structures
Throughout All Units
Strategies and processes
Throughout All Units
Story/text literary devices
Unit 2: Creative Writing
Unit 3: Literary Studies
Unit 7: Creative Writing
Unit 8: Literary Studies
Reading strategies
Oral language strategies
Unit 5: Spoken Language
Unit 10: Spoken Language
Metacognitive strategies
Throughout All Units
Writing processes
Throughout All Units
Language features
Throughout All Units
Elements of style
Throughout All Units
Exploration of Voice
Throughout All Units
Usage and Conventions
Throughout All Units
Literary Elements and Devices
Unit 2: Creative Writing
Unit 3: Literary Studies
Unit 7: Creative Writing
Unit 8: Literary Studies
Citation Techniques
Throughout All Units
