Grade 1/Grade 2 - General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
Outcome
1.1 Discover and Explore / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
1.1.1 Express Ideas
Talk about personal experiences and familiar events.
Make and talk about personal observations and predictions.
1.1.2 Consider Others’ Ideas
Listen to and acknowledge experiences and feelings shared by others.
Ask for others’ ideas and observations to help discover and explore personal understanding.
1.1.3 Experiment with Language and Form
Use a variety of forms to express and explore familiar events, ideas, and information.
Use a variety of forms to organize and give meaning to familiar experiences, ideas, and information.
1.1.4 Express Preferences
Explain why an oral, literary, or media text is a personal favourite.
Express preferences for a variety of oral, literary, and media texts.
1.1.5 Set Goals
Choose to read and write with and for others.
Develop a sense of self as reader, writer, and illustrator.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.1 Develop Understanding
Connect new experiences and information with prior knowledge.
Connect new information, ideas, and experiences with prior knowledge and experiences.
1.2.2 Explain Opinions
Describe new experiences and ideas.
Explain new experiences and understanding.
Outcome
1.1 Discover and Explore / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
1.2.3 Combine Ideas
Group and sort ideas and information to make sense.
Arrange ideas and information to make sense.
1.2.4 Extend Understanding
Ask questions to make sense of experiences.
Demonstrate curiosity about and question ideas and observations to make sense of experiences.
Language Arts Outcome 2
Grade 1/Grade 2 - General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
Outcome
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
2.1.1 Prior Knowledge
Make connections between texts, prior knowledge, and personal experiences.
2.1.2 Comprehension Strategies
Ask questions to anticipate meaning and use a variety of strategies [including rereading and reading on] to confirm understanding.
Explain anticipated meaning, recognize relationships, and draw conclusions; self-correct understanding using a variety of strategies [including rereading for story sense].
2.1.3 Textual Cues
Use textual cues [such as pictures, patterns, rhymes...] to construct and confirm meaning.
Use textual cues [such as story patterns, titles...] to construct and confirm meaning.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
2.1.4 Cueing Systems
Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cues [including differentiating between letters and words, basic sight words, sound-letter relationships to identify initial and final consonants, and letter clusters] to construct and confirm meaning; use pictionaries to determine word meaning in context.
Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cues [including word order, punctuation, capitalization, intonation, and phrasing; sound-symbol relationships to identify initial, medial, and final sounds, letter clusters, blends, digraphs, vowels, and familiar and unfamiliar words] to construct and confirm meaning in context.
2.2 Respond to Texts
2.2.1 Experience Various Texts
Participate in shared listening, reading, and viewing experiences using texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as poems, books with recurring language patterns, cartoons...] and cultural traditions.
Choose to engage in a variety of shared and independent listening, reading, and viewing experiences using texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as legends, video programs, fables, riddles...] and cultural traditions.
2.2.2 Connect Self, Texts, and Culture
Share personal experiences and family traditions related to oral, literary, and media texts; identify choices that people make in texts [including texts about Canada or by Canadian writers].
Discuss the experiences and traditions of various communities and cultures portrayed in oral, literary, and media texts [including texts about Canada or by Canadian writers].
2.2 Responds to Texts / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
2.2.3 Appreciate the Artistry of Texts
Share feelings and moods evoked by oral, literary, and mediatexts.
Identify and express the feelings of people in oral, literary, and
media texts.
2.3.1 Forms and Genre
Recognize different forms and genres of oral, literary, and media texts [such as poetry, plays, storytelling by elders, video programs, cartoons...].
Recognize that information and ideas can be expressed in a variety of forms and genres [such as poetry, articles, stories,
songs, films...].
2.3.2 Techniques and Elements
Relate and represent the beginning, middle, and end of oral, literary, and media texts.
Identify the main characters and discuss in own words the beginning, middle, and ending of oral, literary, and media texts.
2.3.3 Vocabulary
Experiment with parts of words, word combinations, and word patterns [such as compound words, refrains, choruses...] for a variety of purposes.
Use knowledge of commonalities in word families to increase vocabulary in a variety of contexts.
2.3.4 Experiment with Language
Appreciate repetition, rhyme, and rhythm in shared language experiences [such as action songs, word play...].
Demonstrate interest in the sounds of words and word combinations in pattern books, poems, songs, and oral and visual presentations.
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2.3.5 Create Original Texts
Create original texts [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral or written stories...] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques.
Create original texts [such as oral or written stories, pictures, dramatizations...] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques.
Language Arts Outcome 3
Grade 1/Grade 2 - General Outcome 3 - Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
Outcome
3.1 Plan and Focus / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
3.1.1 Use Personal Knowledge
Discuss personal knowledge of a topic to discover information needs.
Record personal knowledge of a topic to identify information needs.
3.1.2 Ask Questions
Ask questions to satisfy personal curiosity on a topic and discuss information needs.
Ask questions to understand a topic and identify information needs.
3.1.3 Contribute to Group Inquiry
Ask and answer questions to help satisfy group curiosity and information needs on a specific topic.
Contribute relevant information and questions to assist in group understanding of a topic or task.
3.1.4 Create and Follow a Plan
Listen actively and recall and follow directions for gathering information.
Recall and follow directions for accessing and gathering information.
3.2 Select and Process
3.2.1 Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge
Identify and share personal knowledge related to experiences.
Participate in group talk to generate information on a
topic and to identify sources of additional information
3.2 Select and Process
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3.2.2 Identify Sources
Answer questions using oral, visual, and print information sources [such as picture and concept books, people, multimedia, excursions, camps...].
Access information using a variety of sources [such as elders, simple chapter books, concept books, multimedia, computers...].
3.2.3 Assess Sources
Recognize when information answers the questions asked.
Match information to inquiry or research needs.
3.2.4 Access Information
Understand that library materials have a specific organizational system, and use titles to locate information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to make meaning.
Use the specific library organizational system to locate information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues to make meaning.
3.2.5 Make Sense of Information
Make and check predictions using prior knowledge and oral, visual, and written text features [such as illustrations, titles, opening shot sin video programs, electronic texts...] to understand information.
Make connections between prior knowledge, ideas, information, and oral, visual, and written text features [such as table of contents, chapter headings, key words, captions...].
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess
3.3.1 Organize Information
Identify and categorize information according to similarities, differences, and sequences.
Categorize related information and ideas using a variety of strategies [such as linking significant details, sequencing events in a logical order...].
3.3.2 Record Information
Represent and tell key facts and ideas in own words.
Record key facts and ideas in own words; identify titles and authors of sources.
3.3.3 Evaluate Information
Recognize and use gathered information as a basis for communication.
Examine gathered information to decide what information to share or omit.
3.3.4 Develop New Understanding
Recall, talk about, and record information-gathering experiences.
Ask questions [such as “What did I do that worked well?”...] to reflect on inquiry or research experiences.
Language Arts Outcome 4
Grade 1/Grade 2 - General Outcome 4 - Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
Outcome
4.1 Generate and Focus / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
4.1.1 Generate Ideas
Contribute ideas from personal experiences for oral, written, and visual texts.
Generate and contribute ideas on particular topics for oral, written, and visual texts.
4.1.2 Choose Forms
Share ideas and experiences through talking, storytelling, pictures, singing, illustrations, and print.
Use a variety of forms [such as simple reports, illustrations, role-plays of characters and situations, string games...] for particular audiences and purposes.
4.1.3 Organize Ideas
Organize print and pictures to express ideas and tell stories
Order ideas to create a beginning, middle, and end in own oral, written, and visual texts.
4.2 Enhance and Improve
4.2.1 Appraise Own and Others’ Work
Demonstrate interest in and suggest enhancements for own and others’ work and presentations.
Share own stories and creations with peers and respond to questions or comments; respond to own and others’ work and presentations using pre-established criteria.
4.2.2 Revise Content
Rephrase and represent to clarify ideas.
Revise illustrations and representations by adding or deleting words and details to make sense.
4.2 Enhance and Improve / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
4.2.3 Enhance Legibility
Strive for consistency in letter size and shape; print letters legibly from left to right horizontally, using lines on a page as a guide; explore and use the keyboard to produce text.
Form letters and words of consistent size and shape; print legibly using correct letter formation and spacing; explore and use the keyboard to compose and revise text.
4.2.4 Enhance Artistry
Experiment with words and sentence patterns using specific structures [such as pocket charts, language experience charts, frame sentences, sentence strips...].
Experiment with words and simple sentence patterns to enhance communication forms [such as stories, reports, letters...].
4.2.5 Enhance Presentation
Add captions and details to own stories and drawings.
Combine illustrations and written texts to express ideas, feelings, and information.
4.3 Attend to Conventions
4.3.1 Grammar and Usage
Check for completeness of work and add details and enhancements.
Check for word for beginning, middle, and end.
4.3.2 Spelling (see Strategies)
Use sound-symbol relationships and visual memory to spell familiar words.
Spell familiar words using a variety of strategies [including phonics, structural analysis, and visual memory] and resources [such as personal dictionaries, classroom charts, help from others...].
4.3 Attend to Conventions / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
4.3.3 Punctuation and Capitalization
Capitalize the first letters of names, the beginnings of statements, and the pronoun “I”; use periods.
Use periods and question marks as end punctuation.
4.4 Present and Share
4.4.1 Share Ideas and Information
Share information and ideas in a brief presentation to a familiar audience; use illustrations and other materials to aid the presentation.
Share information and ideas on a topic with a familiar audience; clarify information by responding to questions.
4.4.2 Effective Oral Communication
Present information and ideas in sentences.
Report briefly to the class using a clear voice and appropriate phrasing and intonation.
4.4.3 Attentive Listening and Viewing
Demonstrate active listening and viewing skills and strategies [such as giving non-verbal encouragement, asking questions...].
Demonstrate attentive audience behaviours [such as asking relevant questions...].
Language Arts Outcome 5
Grade 1/Grade 2 - General Outcome 5 - Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to celebrate and to build community.
5.1 Develop and Celebrate Community / Digital Social Stories / I Movie / Movie Maker / Webquests
5.1.1 Compare Responses
Tell, draw, and write about self and family.
Tell, draw, and write about self, family, and community.
5.1.2 Relate Texts to Culture
Listen to stories from oral, literary, and media texts from various communities.
Talk about similarities among stories from oral, literary, and media texts from various communities.
5.1.3 Appreciate Diversity
Relate aspects of stories and characters to personal feelings and experiences.
Connect situations portrayed in oral, literary, and media texts to personal experiences.
5.1.4 Celebrate Special Occasions
Share ideas and experiences through conversation, puppet plays, dramatic scenes, and songs.
Participate in shared language experiences to celebrate individual and class achievements.
5.2 Encourage, Support, and Work with Others
5.2.1 Cooperate with Others
Work in cooperative and collaborative partnerships and groups.
Work in a variety of cooperative and collaborative partnership and group structures.
5.2.2 Work in Groups
Take turns sharing information and ideas.
Contribute related ideas and information in whole-class and small-group activities.
5.2 Encourage, Support, and Work with Others
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5.2.3 Use Language to Show Respect
Recognize that individuals adjust language use according to the situation.
Adjust own language use for different situations.
5.2.4 Evaluate Group Process
Help others and ask others for help; identify and assume roles necessary for maintenance of group process.
Acknowledge achievements of others; rehearse roles and responsibilities in group process by helping others and asking others for help.
Source: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ela/docs/outcomes/index.html (retrieved sept.13/09)
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ela/docs/outcomes/grade1.doc (retrieved sept.13/09)
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ela/docs/outcomes/grade2.doc (retrieved sept.13/09)