LEARNING+OUTCOMES

LANGUAGE ARTS Grade 6


 * General Outcome 1: ** Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

1.1 Discover and Explore

1.1.1 //Express Ideas// Engage in exploratory communication to share personal responses, make predictions, and discover own interpretations.

1.1.2 //Consider Others’ Ideas// Select from others’ ideas and observations to develop thinking and understanding. 1.1.3 //Experiment with Language and Form// Experiment with new forms of self-expression.

1.1.4 //Express Preferences// Assess personal collection of favourite oral, literary, and media texts and discuss preferences for particular forms.

1.1.5 //Set Goals// Assess personal language use and revise personal goals to enhance language learning and use.

1.2 Clarify and Extend

1.2.1 //Develop Understanding// Reflect on prior knowledge and experiences to arrive at new understanding. 1.2.2 //Explain Opinions// Explain personal viewpoints in clear and meaningful ways and revise personal understanding. 1.2.3 //Combine Ideas// Search for ways to reorganize ideas and information to extend understanding. 1.2.4 //Extend Understanding// Appraise ideas for clarity and ask extending questions; select from others’ experiences and ideas to extend ways of knowing the world.


 * 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.

2.1 Use Strategies and Cues

2.1.1 //Prior Knowledge// Seek connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a variety of texts. 2.1.2 //Comprehension Strategies// Use comprehension strategies [such as asking questions, making notes, adjusting reading rate. . .] appropriate to the type of text and purpose [including summarizing, outlining, remembering ideas, and responding personally]. 2.1.3 //Textual Cues// Use textual cues [such as organizational structures of narrative and expository texts, headings, glossaries, margin notes...] to construct and confirm meaning. 2.1.4 //Cueing Systems// Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cueing systems [including word order, context clues; and multiple meanings of words, structural analysis to identify roots, prefixes, and suffixes] to construct and confirm meaning; use a dictionary to determine word meaning in context.

2.2 Respond to Texts

2.2.1 //Experience Various Texts// Seek opportunities to experience texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as autobiographies, travelogues, comics...] and cultural traditions; share responses. 2.2.2 //Connect Self, Texts, and Culture// Discuss own and others’ understanding of various community and cultural traditions in various places and times as portrayed in oral, literary, and media texts [including texts about Canada or by Canadian writers]. 2.2.3 //Appreciate the Artistry of Texts// Identify descriptive and figurative language in oral, literary, and media texts and discuss how it enhances understanding of people, places, and action.

2.3 Understand Forms and Techniques

2.3.1 //Forms and Genre// Recognize key characteristics of various forms and genres of oral, literary, and media texts [such as novels, biographies, autobiographies, myths, poetry, drawings, and prints...]. 2.3.2 //Techniques and Elements// Identify significant elements and techniques in oral, literary, and media texts, and examine how they interact to create effects. 2.3.3 //Vocabulary// Experiment with ambiguity in language [such as puns, jokes based on multiple meanings, poetry...] in a variety of contexts. 2.3.4 //Experiment with Language// Alter words, forms, and sentence patterns to create new versions of texts for a variety of purposes [such as humour...]; explain ways in which figures of speech [such as similes, metaphors...] clarify and enhance meaning. 2.3.5 //Create Original Texts// Create original texts [such as letters, short stories, media broadcasts, plays, poems, video presentations, readers’ theater...] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques.


 * General Outcome 3: ** Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.

3.1 Plan and Focus

3.1.1 //Use Personal Knowledge// Summarize and focus personal knowledge of a topic to determine information needs. 3.1.2 //Ask Questions// Formulate relevant questions to focus information needs for an inquiry. 3.1.3 //Contribute to Group Inquiry// Contribute to group knowledge of topics to help identify and focus information needs, sources, and purposes for group inquiry or research. 3.1.4 //Create and Follow a Plan// Create and follow a plan to collect and record information within a pre-established time frame.

3.2 Select and Process

3.2.1 //Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge// Recall, record and organize personal and peer knowledge of a topic for inquiry or research. 3.2.2 //Identify Sources// Answer inquiry and research questions using a variety of information sources [such as bulletin boards, classroom displays art, music, skilled community people, CD-ROMs, Internet...]. 3.2.3 //Assess Sources// Recognize that information serves different purposes and determine its usefulness for inquiry or research focus using pre-established criteria. 3.2.4 //Access Information// Use a variety of tools [including bibliographies, thesauri, and technology] to access information and ideas; use visual and auditory cues [such as captions, intonation, staging ...] to identify relevant information.

3.2.5 //Make Sense of Information// Use organizational patterns of oral, visual, and written texts [including main ideas and supporting details, explanation, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence] to construct meaning; skim, scan and read closely to gather information.

3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess

3.3.1 //Organize Information// Organize information and ideas using a variety of strategies and techniques [such as comparing and contrasting, classifying and sorting according to subtopics, sequences, order of priority or importance...]. 3.3.2 //Record Information// Make notes on a topic, combining information from more than one source; reference sources appropriately. 3.3.3 //Evaluate Information// Evaluate the appropriateness of information for a particular form, audience, and purpose; identify gaps in information collected and gather additional information. 3.3.4 //Develop New Understanding// Relate gathered information to prior knowledge to reach conclusions or develop points of view; establish goals for developing further inquiry or research skills.


 * General Outcome 4: ** Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.

4.1 Generate and Focus

4.1.1 //Generate Ideas// Focus a topic for oral, written, and visual texts integrating ideas from experiences and a variety of other sources. 4.1.2 //Choose Forms// Select specific forms [such as diaries, narratives, speeches, letters, poetry, mime...] that serve particular audiences and purposes. 4.1.3 //Organize Ideas// Adapt models from listening, reading, and viewing experiences to enhance own oral, written, and visual texts using organizational patterns [such as stanzas, chronological order, paragraphs...].

4.2 Enhance and Improve

4.2.1 //Appraise Own and Others’ Work// Share own stories and creations at appropriate times during revision and use criteria to provide feedback for others and to revise and assess own work and presentations. 4.2.2 //Revise Content// Revise to eliminate unnecessary information. 4.2.3 //Enhance Legibility// Write legibly and at a pace appropriate to context and purpose when composing and revising; select and use a variety of formatting options [such as spacing, graphics, titles and headings, variety of font sizes and styles...] when appropriate. 4.2.4 //Enhance Artistry// Choose language, sounds, and images [including transitional devices] to enhance meaning and emphasis. 4.2.5 //Enhance Presentation// Prepare detailed and organized compositions, presentations, reports, and inquiry or research projects using templates or pre-established organizers.

4.3 Attend to Conventions

4.3.1 //Grammar and Usage// Edit for subject-verb agreement, appropriate verb tense, and correct pronoun references. 4.3.2 //Spelling (see Strategies)// Know and apply spelling conventions using appropriate strategies [including structural analysis, syllabication, and visual memory] and spelling patterns when editing and proofreading; use a variety of resources to determine the spelling of common exceptions to conventional spelling patterns. 4.3.3 //Punctuation and Capitalization// Know and apply capitalization and punctuation conventions in compound sentences, titles, headings, salutations, and addresses when editing and proofreading.

4.4 Present and Share

4.4.1 //Share Ideas and Information// Share information on a topic with class members in a planned and focused group session using a variety of strategies [such as interactive dialogues, demonstrations, dramatizations, audio-visual and artistic representations...]. 4.4.2 //Effective Oral Communication// Use appropriate volume, phrasing, intonation, non-verbal cues [such as body language, facial expression...], and presentation space to enhance communication. 4.4.3 //Attentive Listening and Viewing// Demonstrate critical listening and viewing skills and strategies [such as recognizing main idea and details, identifying inference...] and show respect for presenter(s) through appropriate audience behaviours [such as giving non-verbal encouragement, responding to emotional aspects of the presentation...].


 * General Outcome 5: ** Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to celebrate and to build community.

5.1 Develop and Celebrate Community

5.1.1 //Compare Responses// Compare personal ways of responding and thinking with those of others. 5.1.2 //Relate Texts to Culture// Incorporate language from oral, literary, and media texts to describe personal perspectives on cultural representations. 5.1.3 //Appreciate Diversity// Observe and discuss aspects of human nature revealed in personal experiences and in oral, literary, and media texts; recognize personal participation and responsibility in communities. 5.1.4 //Celebrate Special Occasions// Explore and experiment with various ways in which language is used across cultures, age groups, and genders to honour and celebrate people and events.

5.2 Encourage, Support, and Work with Others

5.2.1 //Cooperate with Others// Assist group members to maintain focus and complete tasks; identify and solve group process issues. 5.2.2 //Work in Groups// Select and assume roles to assist in the achievement of group goals; engage in on-going feedback. 5.2.3 //Use Language to Show Respect// Demonstrate sensitivity to appropriate language use and tone when communicating orally. 5.2.4 //Evaluate Group Process// Assess own contributions to group process, set personal goals for enhancing work with others, monitor group process using checklists, and set group goals.

MATH

Grade 6 Mathematics 2008 Number || Develop number sense. || > [C, CN, R, T] || [ME, PS, T] || > and factors of numbers > less than 100 > composite numbers > involving factors or > multiples. [PS, R, V] || [CN, ME, R, V] || [C, CN, PS, R, V] || [C, CN, PS, R, V] || [C, CN, R, V] || multiplication and division of decimals involving > multipliers > divisors > that are multiples of 10. [C, CN, ME, PS, R, V] || 6.N 9. Explain and apply the order of operations, excluding exponents (limited to whole numbers). [CN, ME, PS, T] ||
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 * General Outcome
 * 6.N.1. Demonstrate an understanding of place value for numbers
 *  greater than one million
 *  less than one thousandth.
 * 6.N 2. Solve problems involving large numbers, using technology.
 * 6.N 3. Demonstrate an understanding of factors and multiples by
 *  determining multiples
 *  identifying prime and
 *  solving problems
 * 6.N 4. Relate improper fractions to mixed numbers.
 * 6.N 5. Demonstrate an understanding of ratio, concretely, pictorially, and symbolically.
 * 6.N 6. Demonstrate an understanding of percent (limited to whole numbers) concretely, pictorially, and symbolically.
 * 6.N 7. Demonstrate an understanding of integers, concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
 * 6.N 8. Demonstrate an understanding of
 *  1-digit whole-number
 *  1-digit natural number
 *  Multipliers and divisors
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Statistics and Probability || General Outcome Collect, display, and analyze data to solve problems. || [C, CN, PS, R, V] ||  experiments
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 * 6.SP.1.Create, label, and interpret line graphs to draw conclusions.
 * 6.SP.2. Select, justify, and use appropriate methods of collecting data, including  questionnaires

 databases

 electronic media. [C, PS, T] || [C, CN, PS] || Use experimental or theoretical probabilities to represent and solve problems involving uncertainty. || 6.SP.4. Demonstrate an understanding of probability by > outcomes of a > probability experiment > experimental and > theoretical probability > theoretical probability of outcomes in a probability experiment > [C, ME, PS, T] ||
 * 6.SP.3. Graph collected data and analyze the graph to solve problems.
 * General Outcome
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 *  identifying all possible
 *  differentiating between
 *  determining the
 *  determining the experimental probability of outcomes in a probability experiment
 *  comparing experimental results with the theoretical probability for an experiment.

Shape and Space (cont.) || Describe and analyze position and motion of objects and shapes. || [C, CN, PS, T, V] || 6.SS.7. Perform a combination of successive transformations of 2-D shapes to create a design, and identify and describe the transformations. [C, CN, T, V] || 6.SS. 8. Identify and plot points in the first quadrant of a Cartesian plane using whole number ordered pairs. [C, CN, V] || 6.SS.9. Perform and describe single transformations of a 2-D shape in the first quadrant of a Cartesian plane (limited to whole number vertices). [C, CN, PS, T, V] ||
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 * General Outcome
 * 6.SS.6. Perform a combination of transformations (translations, rotations, or reflections) on a single 2-D shape, and draw and describe the image.
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Shape and Space || Use direct or indirect measurement to solve problems. || > angles in the > environment > according to their > measure > of angles using 45°, 90°, and 180° as reference angles > [C, CN, ME, V] || > [C, R] || > rectangular prisms. [C, CN, PS, R, V] || Describe the characteristics of 3-D objects and 2-D shapes, and analyze the relationships among them. ||
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 * General Outcome
 * 6.SS.1. Demonstrate an understanding of angles by
 *  identifying examples of
 *  classifying angles
 *  estimating the measure
 *  determining angle measures in degrees
 *  drawing and labelling angles when the measure is specified.
 * 6.SS.2. Demonstrate that the sum of interior angles is
 *  180° in a triangle
 *  360° in a quadrilateral.
 * 6.SS.3. Develop and apply a formula for determining the
 *  perimeter of polygons
 *  area of rectangles
 *  volume of right
 * General Outcome
 * 6.SS.4. Construct, and compare triangles, including

 scalene  isosceles

 equilateral  right

 obtuse

 acute in different orientations. [C, PS, R, V] || 6.SS.5. Describe and compare the sides and angles of regular and irregular polygons. [C, PS, R, V] ||
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Patterns and Relations || Use patterns to describe the world and solve problems. || [C, CN, PS, R] || [C, CN, ME, PS, R, V] || Represent algebraic expressions in multiple ways. || 6.PR.3. Represent generalizations arising from number relationships using equations with letter variables. [C, CN, PS, R, V] || 6.PR.4. Demonstrateandexplain the meaning of preservation of equality concretely, pictorially, and symbolically. [C, CN, PS, R, V] || Processes:
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 * General Outcome
 * 6.PR.1. Demonstratean understanding of the relationships within tables of values to solve problems.
 * 6.PR.2. Representanddescribe patterns and relationships using graphs and tables.
 * General Outcome
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C – Communication PS – Problem Solving V - Visualization CN – Connections R – Reasoning ME – Mental Mathematics and Estimation T – Technology