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