English Language Arts, Grade 6
Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 6 · 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: examining how sharing clarifies thinking, active listening, assessing how thinking shifts, expressing ideas in discussion, presenting and analyzing impact, and examining and evaluating communication.
- Examining how sharing clarifies and extends thinking
- Using active listening strategies
- Assessing how listening affects your thinking
- Expressing ideas in a range of discussions
- Applying effective presentation skills
- Analyzing a presentation's impact on an audience
- Examining a speaker's perspective
- Evaluating verbal and non-verbal communication
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
Making meaning from texts: integrating cueing systems, selecting texts, integrating strategies, explaining structures and features, reflecting, inquiry, and responding personally and critically.
- Integrating cueing systems to construct meaning
- Selecting texts for interests and learning needs
- Integrating effective reading and viewing strategies
- Explaining how structures help the audience make meaning
- Explaining how features help the audience make meaning
- Reflecting on themselves as readers and viewers
- Creating inquiry questions for multiple purposes
- Selecting a variety of informational sources
- Evaluating information from sources
- Organizing reliable information
- Sharing relevant information
- Explaining thinking using support from texts
- Explaining thinking using personal connections
- Evaluating messages in texts
- Comparing alternate points of view
- Analyzing the impact of language in texts
- Examining how responses to texts affect social change
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
Creating texts: developing ideas, voice, and style; reflecting as a text creator; creating a range of texts; assessing audience and purpose; and analyzing traits, feedback, conventions, and publishing.
- Exploring ways to develop ideas
- Developing voice in texts
- Experimenting with stylistic effects
- Reflecting on themselves as text creators
- Creating a range of texts
- Assessing the influence of audience and purpose
- Analyzing traits of writing to create texts
- Analyzing responses from peers
- Applying knowledge of language conventions
- Examining the impact of publishing texts
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