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The official Alberta English Language Arts 20-1 curriculum
Alberta defines English Language Arts 20-1 by strands and outcomes. MapleMind teaches the same curriculum reorganized for one-skill-at-a-time tutoring — the table shows exactly where every official strand lands, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit below.
Official source Alberta's official programs of studyRead it on the government site — alberta.ca ↗| Official strand | Outcomes | Where MapleMind teaches it |
|---|---|---|
| General Outcome 1 | 5 | Exploring Ideas & Perspectives |
| General Outcome 2 | 9 | Comprehending Literature & Other Texts |
| General Outcome 3 | 6 | Managing Ideas & Information (Inquiry & Research) |
| General Outcome 4 | 8 | Creating Oral, Print & Multimedia Texts |
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Unit 1Exploring Ideas & PerspectivesOfficial strand · General Outcome 1
Deepening the thinking behind reading and writing: forming interpretations you actively test, shaping effects with intention, and choosing strategies to widen your perspective.
Discover Possibilities
- Forming tentative understandings1.1.1 — Generate and test strategies to form tentative interpretations and positions, staying open as evidence accumulates.
- Experimenting with language, image and structure1.1.2 — Experiment with language, image and structure to create different effects for particular situations, purposes and audiences.
Extend Awareness
- Considering new perspectives1.2.1 — Select strategies to extend your awareness of new perspectives, monitor how well they work, and modify them as needed.
- Expressing preferences and expanding interests1.2.2 — Reflect on your text preferences, identify what shaped them, and choose strategies to expand interest in texts and text creators.
- Setting personal goals for language growth1.2.3 — Appraise your strengths and weaknesses as a language user, select and monitor strategies to build strengths and address weaknesses, and set growth goals tied to real communications and community involvement.
The official wording — 5 outcomes in this unit
- 1.1.1
generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative understandings, interpretations and positions
- 1.1.2
experiment with language, image and structure to create different effects in particular situations and for particular purposes and audiences
- 1.2.1
select appropriate strategies to extend awareness and understanding of new perspectives, monitor their effectiveness, and modify them as needed
- 1.2.2
reflect on personal text preferences, identify influences that have contributed to the formation of these preferences
- 1.2.3
appraise own strengths and weaknesses as a language user and language learner
Unit 2Comprehending Literature & Other TextsOfficial strand · General Outcome 2
Analytical reading: describing a creator's purpose and audience, explaining how devices create clarity and emphasis, and evaluating texts against criteria you can defend.
Meaning from Text & Context
- Discerning and analyzing context2.1.1 — Describe the text creator's purpose and analyze the target audience, and consider how societal forces influence texts.
- Understanding and interpreting content2.1.2 — Use comprehension strategies — questioning, predicting, using context for connotation, graphic organizers — to interpret texts.
- Engaging prior knowledge2.1.3 — Activate what you already know — prior experiences, familiar devices, textual elements and genres — and use metacognitive strategies to make sense of a new text before you read closely.
- Using reference strategies2.1.4 — Use reference strategies and technologies — refining questions, following works cited, note-taking — to aid understanding.
Textual Forms & Techniques
- Relating form to purpose and content2.2.1 — Identify text forms and describe the relationships of form to purpose and content across literary and communications forms.
- Devices, techniques and their effects2.2.2 — Explain how rhetorical devices and stylistic techniques create clarity, coherence and emphasis in print and nonprint texts.
Responding to Texts
- Connecting self, text, culture and milieu2.3.1 — Bring your personal, moral, ethical and cultural perspectives to a text, respond both personally and analytically, and monitor how those perspectives shift through interpretation and discussion.
- Evaluating texts with criteria2.3.2 — Develop, monitor and refine criteria to evaluate the effectiveness, appropriateness and significance of texts.
- Appreciating effectiveness and artistry2.3.3 — Use precise terminology to discuss and appreciate the effectiveness and artistry of a variety of text forms, including media texts.
The official wording — 9 outcomes in this unit
- 2.1.1
describe the text creator's purpose, and analyze the target audience
- 2.1.2
use a variety of strategies to comprehend literature and other texts
- 2.1.3
reflect on and describe strategies used to engage prior knowledge as a means of assisting comprehension of new texts
- 2.1.4
use a variety of appropriate reference strategies and reference technologies to aid understanding
- 2.2.1
describe the relationships of form to purpose and co
- 2.2.2
explain how rhetorical devices and stylistic techniques used in print and nonprint texts create clarity, coherence and emphasis
- 2.3.1
identify and consider personal, moral, ethical and cultural perspectives when studying literature and other texts
- 2.3.2
identify criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of texts, monitor the effectiveness of the criteria, and modify the criteria as needed
- 2.3.3
use terminology appropriate to the forms studied for discussing and appreciating the effectiveness and artistry of a variety of text forms
Unit 3Managing Ideas & Information (Inquiry & Research)Official strand · General Outcome 3
Sharper inquiry: selecting and monitoring strategies to scope research, judging sources for bias and quality, and distinguishing supported from unsupported conclusions.
Planning Inquiry or Research
- Focusing purpose and form3.1.1 — Select and monitor strategies to determine the depth and breadth of inquiry and to identify its purpose, audience and form.
- Planning and identifying sources3.1.2 — Develop an inquiry or research plan that fosters understanding, and identify your information needs and sources.
Following the Plan of Inquiry
- Selecting, recording and organizing information3.2.1 — Use and monitor strategies to select, record and organize information appropriate to your purpose.
- Evaluating sources and detecting bias3.2.2 — Evaluate sources for credibility, quality and bias, and assess whether information is appropriate to your purpose.
- Forming generalizations and conclusions3.2.3 — Form generalizations from evidence and draw conclusions consistent with your findings, distinguishing supported from unsupported claims.
- Reviewing the inquiry process and findings3.2.4 — Assess how well your research strategies worked, review the accuracy and significance of your findings, prepare a record of references, and identify how to improve next time.
The official wording — 6 outcomes in this unit
- 3.1.1
select and monitor the effectiveness of strategies to determine the depth and breadth of inquiry or research
- 3.1.2
reflect on and describe strategies for developing an inquiry or research plan that will foster understanding
- 3.2.1
reflect on and describe strategies that may be used to select, record and organize information
- 3.2.2
reflect on and describe strategies to evaluate information sources for credibility and bias and for quality
- 3.2.3
draw conclusions that are appropriate to findings, reflect own understandings and are consistent with the identified topic
- 3.2.4
reflect on and assess the effectiveness of strategies used to guide inquiry or research
Unit 4Creating Oral, Print & Multimedia TextsOfficial strand · General Outcome 4
Purposeful creation: matching form to purpose, developing content you own, and assessing and refining the controlling idea so the work is thoughtful, effective and correct.
Developing & Presenting Texts
- Assessing the text-creation context4.1.1 — Before drafting, pin down your purpose and target audience, select strategies to accomplish that purpose and engage that audience, and weigh the expectations and constraints of the communication situation.
- Choosing form, structure and medium4.1.2 — Select a text form appropriate to your purpose and consistent with your content (e.g. a photo essay for a critical/analytical response to poetry).
- Developing content4.1.3 — Take ownership of text creation by crafting a personally meaningful, engaging topic, and assess the personal and contextual variables that shape it.
- Producing and presenting the text4.1.4 — Meet the production, publication and presentation requirements for your form — manuscript style, presentation media, voice, nonverbal and visual production factors — and adapt them to your purpose, audience and situation.
Improving & Editing
- Enhancing thought, support and detail4.2.1 — Assess the effectiveness of the controlling idea or unifying effect of a text in progress, and refine it to meet the intended purpose.
- Enhancing organization4.2.2 — Assess and revise the beginning, organizational components and closing of a draft, and strengthen transitions and transitional devices so the parts hold together as coherent units of thought.
- Addressing matters of stylistic choice4.2.3 — Assess and refine your diction and syntax on purpose — revising word choice and sentence structures to create intended effects — and apply stylistic techniques and rhetorical devices that develop your personal voice.
- Editing for correctness4.2.4 — Use handbooks and tools and apply capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar conventions to edit for correctness.
The official wording — 8 outcomes in this unit
- 4.1.1
identify purpose and target audience for text creation, and select strategies to accomplish purpose and engage audience
- 4.1.2
select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text
- 4.1.3
take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging
- 4.1.4
meet particular production, publication and display requirements for print texts
- 4.2.1
assess the effectiveness of the controlling idea or desired unifying effect of a text in progress, and refine the controlling idea or desired unifying effect as appropriate to meet the intended purpose
- 4.2.2
assess the organizational components of a text in progress
- 4.2.3
assess syntax for appropriateness and effectiveness, and revise sentence structures as needed to create intended effects
- 4.2.4
use handbooks and other tools, including electronic tools, as resources to assist with text creation
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Where can I see the official Alberta curriculum for English Language Arts 20-1?
The official source is linked on this page — Alberta's official programs of study. The outline here follows it: every MapleMind skill carries its official outcome code, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit.
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