English Language Arts, Grade 5
Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 5 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Speaking and Listening
Talking and listening to learn: expressing ideas with evidence, active listening, extending thinking through questions, collaborative discussion, presenting and analyzing impact, and inclusive, sensitive communication.
- Expressing ideas with supporting evidence
- Using active listening strategies
- Asking and answering questions to extend thinking
- Engaging in collaborative discussions
- Using effective presentation skills
- Analyzing a presentation's impact on the audience
- Deciding whether you agree with a speaker
- Using non-verbal communication sensitive to others
- Using inclusive oral language
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
Making meaning from texts: using cueing systems, selecting texts, developing proficiency, explaining structures and features, comprehension strategies, inquiry, and responding personally and critically.
- Using cueing systems to construct meaning
- Selecting appropriate texts
- Developing proficient reading and viewing
- Explaining how text structures help meaning
- Explaining how text features help understanding
- Using a variety of comprehension strategies
- Reflecting on themselves as readers
- Creating an inquiry question to gather information
- Selecting information from sources
- Interpreting relevant information
- Organizing relevant information
- Evaluating information
- Sharing relevant information
- Extending understanding by responding personally
- Quoting from text to support thinking
- Asking critical questions of text
- Analyzing intended messages in texts
- Discussing alternative points of view
- Analyzing how language influences thinking
- Recognizing that social action can bring change
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
Creating texts: developing proficient writing, creating texts that represent the self, writing for wide audiences in varied forms, and using the writing process, collaboration, conventions, and reflection.
- Developing proficient writing and representing
- Creating texts that represent who you are
- Creating texts for wide audiences and purposes
- Creating texts in various forms and genres
- Creating texts using the writing process
- Collaborating with others during text creation
- Using language conventions appropriately
- Reflecting on themselves as writers
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