Course Description:
This course builds on students’ growing literacy and language skills and extends their ability to communicate in English about familiar and school-related topics. Students will make brief oral presentations; improve their literacy skills through a variety of contextualized and supported reading and writing tasks; distinguish between fact and opinion in short written and oral texts; complete short guided-research projects; and engage in a variety of cooperative learning activities. The course will also enable students to strengthen and extend their study skills and personal-management strategies and to broaden their understanding of Canadian diversity and citizenship.
Listening and Speaking
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- demonstrate the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate spoken English for a variety of purposes;
- use speaking skills and strategies to communicate in English for a variety of classroom and social purposes;
- use correctly the language structures appropriate for this level to communicate orally in English.
Reading
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- read and demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts for different purposes;
- use a variety of reading strategies throughout the reading process to extract meaning from texts;
- use a variety of strategies to build vocabulary;
- locate and extract relevant information from written and graphic texts for a variety of purposes.
Writing
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- write in a variety of forms for different purposes and audiences;
- organize ideas coherently in writing;
- use correctly the conventions of written English appropriate for this level, including grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation;
- use the stages of the writing process.
Socio-cultural Competence and Media Literacy
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- use English and non-verbal communication strategies appropriately in a variety of social contexts;
- demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship, and of the contributions of diverse groups to Canadian society;
- demonstrate knowledge of and adaptation to the Ontario education system;
- demonstrate an understanding of, interpret, and create a variety of media texts.