English Language Arts, Grade 9
Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 9 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
3Units
10Lessons
38Skills
Unit 1: Speaking and Listening
Growing as a speaker and listener: contributing to and sustaining discussion, communicating effectively, and interacting with sensitivity, respect, and a critical ear.
Target 1: Explore, Extend, Clarify and Reflect
- Examining their own and others' ideas
- Asking questions calling for elaboration or qualification
- Responding with reliable qualification
- Advocating a point of view with evidence
- Listening to assess relevancy and adequacy
Target 2: Communicate and Respond
- Evaluating strategies to defend a point of view
- Assessing when to clarify or elaborate
- Evaluating effective speaking strategies
Target 3: Interact with Sensitivity and Respect
- Demonstrating responsive speaking and listening
- Expressing ideas with sensitivity and respect
- Questioning ideas, values, and attributes in oral language
- Evaluating how oral language influences and manipulates
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
Growing as a reader and viewer: selecting and reading a range of texts, inquiring across sources, and responding to texts both personally and critically.
Target 4: Select, Read and View a Range of Texts
- Selecting texts for needs and interests
- Explaining how authors use text features
- Using reading and viewing strategies
- Assessing personal reading strategies
Target 5: Inquiry
- Identifying topics and questions for study
- Using reliable information from various sources
- Comparing information from sources
- Using effective inquiry strategies
Target 6: Respond Personally
- Reflecting on personal responses with support
- Examining points of view with cited evidence
Target 7: Respond Critically
- Recognizing that texts can be biased
- Evaluating a text's language, form, and genre
- Analyzing the tools authors use
- Awareness that values influence critical response
- Evaluating the portrayal of culture and reality
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
Growing as a writer and representer: writing to explore and reflect, creating a range of texts for real purposes and audiences, and developing effective, well-crafted products.
Target 8: Write to Explore, Clarify, Reflect and Imagine
- Experimenting with strategies as a language learner
- Writing to reflect on ideas, values, and attitudes
- Assessing strategies and describing growth
- Integrating stylistic effects for a specific purpose
Target 9: Create Texts
- Creating a range of texts
- Evaluating forms and styles for purpose and audience
- Assessing feedback to inform future work
Target 10: Develop Effective Writing Products
- Evaluating strategies for creating texts
- Using the conventions of written language
- Using technologies for varied purposes and audiences
- Committing to the process of creating texts
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