Standards

 

 

 

Grade 6 Language Arts

1. Students will be expected to speak and listen to, explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

1.2 Ask and respond to questions to clarify steps, processes and concepts.

1.3 Support personal ideas, opinions and beliefs, providing relevant details, where necessary (e.g., during a debate).

1.4 Listen critically to others? ideas and points of view.

2. Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.

 2.1 Contribute to and respond constructively in small and whole group discussions (e.g., showing an awareness of strategies to use for involving peers; demonstrating an understanding of their roles and responsibilities as speakers and listeners).

2.2 Use word choice, emphasis, and expression to produce desired affects (e.g., tone intonation and expression in story telling).

2.3 Give and follow detailed instructions and respond to a variety of questions and directions (e.g., develop a recipe).

2.4 Engage in, respond to and evaluate a variety of representatives (e.g., role-playing, painting, charts, and speeches).

5. Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

5.1 Answer their own questions and those of others by selecting relevant information from a variety of texts

                        - access and manipulate information from a variety of texts for a range of                            purposes

                        - use a range of reference texts and a database or an electronic search as an

                          aid in the research and selection process

                        - share and reflect on their research process

8. Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations

 8.1 Use and refine a range of strategies in writing and other ways of  representing to

                        - locate, interpret, and manipulate information in response to questions

                        - record, develop, reflect on and respond to ideas, attitudes, and opinions

                        - compare their own thoughts and beliefs with those of others

                        - describe feelings, reactions, values, and attitudes

                        - record, reflect on, share, and respond to experiences

8.2 Make deliberate language choices, appropriate to purpose, audience and form, to enhance meaning and to achieve interesting effects in imaginative writing and other ways of representing.