Grade Five: English Language Arts

Big Ideas

• Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Curricular Competencies

• Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
• Demonstrate awareness of the oral tradition in First Peoples cultures and the purposes of First Peoples texts
• Identify how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land
• Use oral storytelling processes

Grade Six: English Language Arts

Big Ideas

• Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
• Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.

Curricular Competencies

• Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
• Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
• Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes

Grade Seven: English Language Arts

Big Ideas

• Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Curricular Competencies

• Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
• Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
• Recognize the validity of First Peoples oral tradition for a range of purposes
• Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes