Quebec · Grade 5

English Language Arts, Grade 5

Quebec’s Grade 5 English course, from Response Process to Information-Based: Persuasive Texts.

Units
8
Lessons
14
Skills
28
Provincial exam
None

Unit by unit

Every skill in the course, numbered by unit.

Unit 1 · 5 skills

Response Process

How sequence texts order events

After Reading/Viewing: Interpreting the Text

The official wording · 5 outcomes
1.1
Sequence/chronology
1.2
Compare/contrast
1.3
Problem-solution
1.4
Uses the purpose for reading and clues in the text to determine important aspects of a text (e.g. nonfiction features
1.5
Integrates new information with what is already known to construct meaning

Watch out for

  • Retelling events out of order so the reader gets confused.
  • Keeping new facts in a separate box instead of linking them to old ones.
  • Skipping order words that hold the sequence together.

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Unit 2 · 3 skills

Writing Process

Revision

Editing

The official wording · 3 outcomes
2.1
Adds descriptive words and sufficient details
2.2
Sequences information, events
2.3
Checks for conventions of grammar

Watch out for

  • Thinking more words always means better — add details that help the picture, not filler.
  • Thinking a run-on is fine because it is 'one long idea'.
  • Leaving the writing so bare the reader cannot picture it.

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Unit 3 · 8 skills

Production Process (Media)

Why media texts are made

The official wording · 8 outcomes
3.1
Understands the purpose for the production (e.g. to sell something, to influence the way people think, to give
3.2
Selects text type depending on purpose, audience and context
3.3
Examines models of text type to be produced through immersion into the type (e.g. unique features of a text, target
3.4
Drafts storyboard (i.e. a plan or representation of the project)
3.5
Identifies and gathers material, resources, expertise for the production
3.6
Uses prior knowledge of media text type from experiences with similar texts, immersion into text
3.7
Uses images and/or print and/or sound to produce a familiar media text
3.8
Uses storyboard and/or other planning resources to guide production of the text

Watch out for

  • Thinking all media is just there to entertain.
  • Thinking a media text has no purpose behind it.
  • Picking a text type at random.

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Unit 4 · 2 skills

Self-Expressive: Texts That Reinforce or Maintain Relationships

Reading, Writing and Media Production

The official wording · 2 outcomes
4.1
Self expressive language to relate ideas, feelings, experiences (e.g. in own poetry)
4.2
Self-expressive language in poetry: line breaks or stanzas, images, figurative language to create vivid pictures

Watch out for

  • Thinking a poem must rhyme to be a poem.
  • Writing full sentences with no attention to line breaks or images.

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Unit 5 · 2 skills

Self-Expressive: Reflective Texts

Self-Expressive: Reflective Texts

Writing and Media Production

The official wording · 2 outcomes
5.1
Texts that focus on reflecting and evaluating own learning, in reading/ writing/ production conferences, including
5.2
Multimedia journals

Watch out for

  • Thinking reflection means only saying what went well.
  • Adding images that have nothing to do with the reflection.
  • Writing what you did without any thinking about your learning.

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Unit 6 · 5 skills

Narrative and Literary Texts

Telling a story with a photo sequence

Characterization

Other features of narrative

The official wording · 5 outcomes
6.1
Photo stories (e.g. sequencing photos and/or images to create a scene from a story)
6.2
The physical landscape and social context in which the action of story occurs, i.e. its time and place
6.3
Descriptive details that construct the world of the story (e.g. the forest in
6.4
Literary conventions (e.g. "Once upon a time" in a fairy tale, moral in a fable)
6.5
Humor, suspense, repetition

Watch out for

  • Choosing photos that do not connect into a story.
  • Thinking setting is just background with no effect.
  • Thinking 'Once upon a time' is just a nice start with no meaning.

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Unit 7 · 1 skill

Information-Based: Explanatory Texts

Information-Based: Explanatory Texts

The official wording · 1 outcomes
7.1
Explanation of reasons for a decision

Watch out for

  • Giving a choice with no reason behind it.
  • Using a reason that does not actually support the choice.

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Unit 8 · 2 skills

Information-Based: Persuasive Texts

Speaking to persuade

How music and sound persuade

  • Notice: Music/sound to promote a product and/or appeal

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The official wording · 2 outcomes
8.1
Texts that seek to persuade peers to change their habits and/or actions and/or behaviours (e.g. appeals concerning the
8.2
Music/sound to promote a product and/or appeal to the viewer to take action (e.g. in a TV commercial) (Viewing only)

Key ideas

  1. Music and sound in an ad set a mood and push you to act — an upbeat jingle makes a product feel fun.

  2. A catchy tune sticks in your head so you remember the brand.

  3. Ask: how does this sound make me feel about the product?

  4. First, guided look at “Music/sound to promote a product and/or” — you try it with an adult beside you, not on your own yet (developing, more independent reader).

Watch out for

  • Thinking persuasion just means saying something louder.
  • Thinking ad music is just background with no job.
  • Giving a reason your audience would not care about.

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The official curriculum

This page follows Quebec’s own curriculum for English Language Arts, Grade 5.

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Mathematics, Secondary 3 in the MapleMind app on a tablet: its units, Unit 1 open, and the skills done so far with their starsMathematics, Secondary 3 in the MapleMind app on a phone: its units, Unit 1 open, and the skills done so far with their stars
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Questions about English Language Arts, Grade 5

What is English Language Arts, Grade 5?

Quebec’s Grade 5 English course: 8 units and 28 skills, from Response Process to Information-Based: Persuasive Texts.

What units are in English Language Arts, Grade 5?

1. Response Process, 2. Writing Process, 3. Production Process (Media), 4. Self-Expressive: Texts That Reinforce or Maintain Relationships, 5. Self-Expressive: Reflective Texts, 6. Narrative and Literary Texts, 7. Information-Based: Explanatory Texts and 8. Information-Based: Persuasive Texts.

Is there a provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 5?

No. Quebec gives no provincial exam for English Language Arts, Grade 5.

What comes after English Language Arts, Grade 5?

English Language Arts, Grade 6.

Can MapleMind help with English Language Arts, Grade 5?

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