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Nelson Language Arts 6 Correlation to the Alberta Program of Studies

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

Outcomes Grade 6 Outcomes Going the Distance

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Unit Selection 1.1 Discover and Explore

Express ideas and develop under-standing

• use prior experiences with oral, print and other media texts to choose new texts that meet learning needs and interest

1 2 2 2

3

• Cinder Edna • Space Songs • Looking Inside the Body • Robots: Past, Present and

Future • Roses Sing on New Snow

• read, write, represent and talk to explore and explain connections between prior knowledge and new information in oral, print and other media texts

1 1 1 2 2 2

2 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 2 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Personal Best: Diving Board • The People Who Hugged Trees • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Let’s Talk Advertising • The Eloquent Young Elephant • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of The Child • O Siem • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites


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Unit Selection Express ideas and develop under-standing (con’t)

• engage in exploratory communication to share personal responses and develop own interpretations

1 1 1 1 2 2 2

2 3 3 3

3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 2 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • Rick Hansen • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • The Last Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger came • Peace Is . . . . • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • O Siem • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House • I Love the Look of Words… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites • Roses Sing on New Snow • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

Experiment with language and forms

• experiment with a variety of forms of oral, print and other media texts to discover those best suited for exploring, organizing and sharing ideas, information and experiences

1 2 2 2 2 3

3 1 1 2 2

3

• Personal Best: Diving Board • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • The Last - Place Sports Poems

of Jeremy Bloom • Elections and Advertising • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • Be Water Wise • Robots: Past, Present, and



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Unit Selection Express Preferences

• assess a variety of oral, print and other media texts, and discuss preferences for particular forms

1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • I Love the Look of Words • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourite • Little Green Men

Set Goals • assess personal language use, and revise personal goals to enhance language learning and use

All • Unit Assessment

1.2 Clarify and Extend

Consider others’ ideas

• select from others’ ideas and observations to expand personal understanding

1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Rick Hansen • Looking Inside the Body • Seeing But Not Believing • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Simply Ridiculous! • The Healthy House • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Combine Ideas

• Use talk, notes, personal writing and representing, together with texts and the ideas of others, to clarify and shape understanding

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2

2 2 2 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 2 2 3 3 3

3 3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • Rick Hansen • The People Who Hugged the

Trees • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Trapped in a Mechanical House • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno • The Healthy House • I Love the Look of Words… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites • Roses Sing on New Snow

Extend Under-standing

• evaluate the usefulness of new ideas, techniques and texts in terms of current understanding

2 2 2 1

• Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • One Day a Stranger Came


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General Outcome 2 • Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral,

print and other media texts


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Unit Selection 2.1 Use Strategies and Cues

Use Prior Knowledge

• combine personal experiences and the knowledge and skills gained through previous experiences with oral, print and other media texts to understand new ideas and information

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • Rick Hansen • Space Songs • Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Trapped In a Mechanical House • The Healthy House • Hawk on the Woodpile • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

• apply knowledge of organizational structures of oral, print and other media texts to assist with constructing and confirming meaning

1 1

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

3

• The Great Eagle • The People Who Hugged the

Trees • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese

Use Comprehen-sion Strategies

• identify, and explain in own words, the interrelationship of the main ideas and supporting details

1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 3

3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • Mars Pathfinder • Time Detectives • Elections and Advertising • Peacocks and Bandaids • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • I Love the Look of Words… • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

• preview the content and structure of subject area texts, and use this information to set a purpose, rate and strategy for reading

2 2 2 2 2 2

2 3 3

• Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Everybody’s Favourites


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Use Compre-hension Strategies (con’t)

• use definitions provided in context to identify the meanings of unfamiliar words

1 2

2 2 3 3

• The Killick • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Elections and Advertising • Hawk on the Woodpile

• monitor understanding by evaluating new ideas and information in relation to known ideas and information

2 2

2 3 1 1 2 2 2

• Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Let’s Talk Advertising • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • One Day a Stranger Came • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • The Healthy House

Use Textual Cues

• use text features, such as charts, graphs and dictionaries, to enhance understanding of ideas and information

1 2 3 2 2 2 2

• It’s Easy to Dream • Mars Pathfinder • Selling Your Sole • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future

• identify and use the structural elements of texts, such as magazines, newspapers, newscasts and news features, to access and comprehend ideas and information

1 3 3

• Personal Best: Diving Board • Let’s Talk Advertising • Seeing But Not Believing

Use Phonics and Structural Analysis

• use the meanings of prefixes and suffixes to predict the meanings of unfamiliar words in context

3 • Everybody’s Favourites

• integrate and apply knowledge of phonics, sight vocabulary, language and context clues, and structural analysis to read unfamiliar words in longer and more complex texts

1 2 3 3 3 1 2 3 3

• The Killick • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • The Never-Ending Greenness • Simply Ridiculous! • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow

Use References

• choose the most appropriate reference to confirm the spellings or locate the meanings of unfamiliar words in oral, print and other media texts

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3 3 3 1 2 2 3 3

• The People Who Hugged the Trees

• Selling Your Sole • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • The Never-Ending Greenness • Trapped In A Mechanical House • Totally Techno! • Hawks on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites


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Unit Selection 2.2 Respond to Texts

Experience Various Texts

• experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as autobiographies, travelogues, comics, short films, myths, legends and dramatic performances

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2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 3

3 3 3


• Mars Pathfinder • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Dairy • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Learn About the Environment • simply Ridiculous! • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

• explain own point of view about oral, print and other media texts

3 3 3 3 1 3 3 3

• Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • Peace Is… • I Love the Look of Words… • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

• make connections between own life and characters and ideas in oral, print other media texts

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • Rick Hansen • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Peace Begins with You • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House • Little Green Men

• discuss common topics or themes in a variety of oral, print and other media texts

3 3 3 3

• Let’s Talk Advertising • The Doughnuts • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

• discuss the author’s, illustrator’s, storyteller’s or filmmaker’s intention or purpose

3 3 3

1 1 2 2 3

• Let’s Talk Advertising • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last-Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Learn About the Environment • Trapped In A Mechanical House • Everybody’s Favourites


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Construct meaning from texts

• observe and discuss aspects of human nature revealed in oral, print, and other media texts, and relate them to those encountered in the community

1 1

1 1 1 1 1 2

• The Killick • The People Who Hugged the

Trees • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Learn About the Environment

• summarize oral, print or other media texts, indicating the connections among events, characters and settings

1 1 2 2 2 3

3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • Cinder Edna • Mars Pathfinder • Time Detectives • Be Water Wise • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • A Palace for Aberbog

• identify or infer reasons for a character’s actions

1 1 1 2 3 3

• The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • The Killick • Eleanora’s Diary • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Roses Sing on New Snow

• comment on the credibility of characters and events in oral, print and other media texts, using evidence from personal experiences and the text

1 2 2 3 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Mars Pathfinder • Simply Ridiculous! • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

Appreciate the Artistry of Texts

• explain how metaphor, personification and synecdoche are used to create mood and mental images

1 2 3

• Personal Best: Diving Board • Trapped In A Mechanical Horse • I Love the Look of Words…

• experiment with sentence patterns, imagery and exaggeration to create mood and mental images

1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 3

• The Great Eagle • Rick Hansen • The Killick • Space Songs • Seeing But Not Believing • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Peace Begins with You • I Love the Look of Words… • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow

• discuss how detail is used to enhance character, setting, action and mood in oral, print and other media texts

1 2 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Mars Pathfinder • Seeing But Not Believing • Roses Sing on New Snow


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Unit Selection 2.3 Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques

Understand Forms and Genres

• identify key characteristics of a variety of forms or genres of oral, print and other media texts

2 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

• Space Songs • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • Simply Ridiculous! • Trapped In A Mechanical House • I Love the Look of Words… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

• discuss the differences between print and other media versions of the same text

• Activities and strategies addressing this outcome will be developed for the Alberta teacher’s Guides

Understand Techniques and Elements

• discuss the connections among plot, setting and characters in oral, print and other media texts

1 3

• Cinder Edna • A Palace for Aberbog

• identify first and third person narration, and discuss preferences with reference to familiar texts

2 1 3 3

• Eleanora’s Diary • Peace Is… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Hawk on the Woodpile

• explore techniques, such as visual imagery, sound, flashback and voice inflection, in oral, print and other media texts

1 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 3 3

• The Great Eagle • Personal Best: Diving Board • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Trapped In A Mechanical House • I Love the Look of Words… • Hawk on the Woodpile

• identify strategies that presenters use in media texts to influence audiences

3 3 3 3

3

• Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last-Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • The Doughnuts

Experiment With Language

• alter words, forms and sentence patterns to create new versions of texts for a variety of purposes; explain how imagery and figurative language, such as personification and alliteration, clarify and enhance meaning

1 3 1 1 1 3 3

• Personal Best: Diving Board • Seeing But Not Believing • The Eloquent Young Elephant…. • One Day a Stranger Came • O Siem • I Love the Look of Words… • Little Green Men


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection 2.4 Create Original Text

Generate Ideas

• choose life themes encountered in reading, listening and viewing activities and in own experiences for creating oral, print and other media texts

1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

• It’s Easy to Dream • The Great Eagle • The People Who Hugged the

Trees • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • O Siem • Peace Begins with You • Learning About the Environment • The Healthy House

Elaborate on the Expression of Ideas

• use literary devices to create particular effects

1 1 1 2

2 3 3 3 1 2 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Personal Best: Diving Board • The Killick • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Time Detectives • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Learn About the Environment • I Love the Look of Words… • Roses Sing on New Snow

Structure Texts

• determine purpose and audience needs to choose forms and organize ideas and details in oral, print and other media texts

2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 2

2 2

• Space Song • Mars Pathfinder • Eleanora’s Diary • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • One Day a Stranger Came • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House

• express the same ideas in different forms and genres; compare and explain the effectiveness of each for audience and purpose

1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3

• Personal Best… • The People Who Hugged Trees • Space Songs • The Case of the On-Line Spaceman • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Diary • Selling Your Sole • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • Robots: Past, Present and Future • Totally Techno! • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Everybody’s Favorites • A Palace for Aberbog


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


Choosing Peace

Unit Selection 3.1 Plan and Focus

Focus Attention

• distinguish among facts, supported inferences and opinions

1 2

2 3 3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts

• use note-taking or representing to assist with understanding ideas and information, and focusing topics for investigation

1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 2 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Trapped In A Mechanical House • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House • Roses Sing on New Snow

Determine Information Needs

• decide on and select the information needed to support a point of view

1 1

• One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is…

Plan to Gather Information

• develop and follow own plan for accessing and gathering ideas and information, considering guidelines for time and length of investigation and presentation

1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2

3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Rick Hansen • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Peace Begins With You • Learn About the Environment • Robots: Past, Present, and


3.2 Select and Process

Use a Variety of Sources

• locate information to answer research questions using a variety of sources, such as printed texts, bulletin boards, biographies, art, music, community resource people, CD-ROMs, and the Internet

1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 2

3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Rick Hansen • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Diary • Seeing But Not Believing • Robots: Past, Present, and



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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Access Information

• use a variety of tools, such as bibliographies, thesauri and technology, to access information

1 2 2 2 2 2 2

3 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Diary • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow

• skim, scan and read closely to gather information

2 3 1 1 2 3

• Mars pathfinder • Let’s Talk Advertising • Peacocks and Bandaids • Peace Begins With You • Learn About the Environment • Little Green men

Evaluate Sources

• evaluate the congruency between gathered information and research purpose and focus, using pre-established criteria

1 2

• It’s Easy to Dream • Mars Pathfinder

3.3 Organize, Record and Evaluate

Organize Information

• organize ideas and information using a variety of strategies and techniques, such as comparing and contrasting, and classifying and sorting according to subtopics and sequence

1 2 2 2

2 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 2 3 3 3 3

• Cinder Edna • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Trapped In A Mechanical House • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Healthy House • I Love the Look of Words… • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites • A Palace for Aberbog


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Organize Information (con’t)

• organize and develop ideas and information into oral, print or other media texts with introductions that interest audiences and state the topic, sections that develop the topic and conclusions

1 2 2 2 3 3

3 3 1 2

2 3

3 3 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Space Songs • Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last-Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Totally Techno! • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Roses Sing on New Snow • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

Record Information

• make notes on a topic, combining information from more than one source; use reference sources appropriately

1 2 2

• It’s Easy to Dream • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder

• use outlines, thought webs and summaries to show the relationships among ideas and information and to clarify meaning

1 2

2 1 1 2

• The Killick • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Time Detectives • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Rights of the Child • Learn About the Environment

• quote information from oral, print and other media sources

1 2 2

2 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Mars Pathfinder • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Healthy House • Roses Sing on New Snow

Evaluate Information

• evaluate the appropriateness of information for a particular audience and purpose

2 2 3 3 3

• Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts

• recognize gaps in gathered information, and suggest additional information needed for a particular audience and purpose

3 2

• The Doughnuts • Simply Ridiculous!


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Unit Selection 3.4 Share and Review

Share ideas and information

• communicate ideas and information in a variety of oral, print and other media texts, such as multi-paragraph reports, question and answer formats and graphs

1 1 1

2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

2 3 3 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Rick Hansen • The People Who Hugged the

Trees • Space Songs • Mars Pathfinder • Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Seeing But Not Believing • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Rights of the Child • Peace Begins With You • Learn About the Environment • Be Water Wise • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Healthy House • Hawk on the Woodpile • Everybody’s Favourites • Little Green Men

• select appropriate visuals, print and/or other media to inform and engage the audience

1

3 3 3

3 3 1 2

2 3



Jeremy Bloom • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • Peacocks and Bandaids • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Healthy House • Everybody’s Favourites

Review Research Process

• establish goals for enhancing research skills

2 • Space Songs


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


Choosing Peace

Unit Selection 4.1 Enhance and Improve

Appraise own and others’ work

• work collaboratively to revise and enhance oral, print and other media texts

1 3 1 2 2

3 3

3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Seeing But Not Believing • Peace Is… • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • A Palace for Aberbog

• ask for and evaluate the usefulness of feedback and assistance from peers

1 3 1 2 3 3

3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Elections and Advertising • Peace Is… • Simply Ridiculous! • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • The Girl Who Dreamed Only


Revise and Edit

• revise to provide focus, expand relevant ideas and eliminate unnecessary information

1 1 2 3

3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • Peace Is… • Simply Ridiculous! • The Girl Who Dreamed Only


• edit for appropriate verb tense and for correct pronoun references

2 1 2

• Mars Pathfinder • Peace Is… • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future

• use paragraph structures in expository and narrative texts

1 1 2 1 1 2 2 3

3 3 3 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • The Night of the Pomegranate • Space Songs • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peace Is… • Learn About the Environment • Totally Techno! • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

Enhance Legibility

• write legibly and at a pace appropriate to context and purpose

• Activities and strategies addressing this outcome will be developed for the Alberta teacher’s Guides


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Enhance Legibility (con’t)

• experiment with a variety of software design elements, such as spacing, graphics, titles and headings, and font sizes and styles, to enhance the presentation of texts

3 3 3

3 3 2 2

3

3 3


Jeremy Bloom • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • Simply Ridiculous! • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Everybody’s Favourites • A Palace for Aberbog

Expand Knowledge of Language

• show the relationships among key words associated with topics of study, using a variety of strategies such as thought webs, outlines and lists

1 2 2

2 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3

• The Killick • Mars Pathfinder • The Case of the On-Line

Spaceman • Looking Inside the Body • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Rights of the Child • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Totally Techno! • Hawk on the Woodpile • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

• choose words that capture a particular aspect of meaning and that are appropriate for context, audience and purpose

1 1 3 3 3 3

3 3 1 1 1 1 2 3

• The Great Eagle • The Killick • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • Peace Begins with You • Simply Ridiculous! • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns

Enhance Artistry

• experiment with several options to choose the most appropriate way of communicating ideas or information

1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 2

3 3

• The Great Eagle • Mars Pathfinder • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • Elections and Advertising • The Doughnuts • Peacocks and Bandaids • Peace Begins With You • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Little Green Men


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection 4.2 Attend to Conventions

Attend to grammar and usage

• identify the use of coordinate and subordinate conjunctions to express ideas

1 3

• Peace Begins With You • Roses Sing on New Snow

• use complex sentence structures and a variety of sentence types in own writing

1 1 1 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • Rick Hansen • The Killick • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese

• identify comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, and use in own writing

1 1 3

• Cinder Edna • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns

• identify past, present and future verb tenses, and use throughout a piece of writing

2 • Robots: Past, Present, and Future

Attend to Spelling

• use a variety of resources and strategies to determine and learn the correct spelling of common exceptions to conventional spelling patterns

1 3

3

• The Never-Ending Greenness • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese • Everybody’s Favourites

• explain the importance of correct spellings for effective communication

• Activities and strategies addressing this outcome will be developed for the Alberta Teacher’s Guides

• edit for and correct commonly misspelled words in own writing, using the meaning and function of words in context, mnemonic devices and spelling generalizations

1 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Girl Who Dreamed Only

Geese

Attend to Capitalization and Punctuation

• use colons before lists, to separate hours and minutes, and after salutations in own writing

3 • Selling Your Sole

• identify parentheses and colons when reading, and use them to assist comprehension


• identify ellipses that show words are omitted or sentences are incomplete when reading, and use them to assist comprehension


4.3 Present and Share


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Present Information

• use various styles and forms of presentations, depending on content, audience and purpose

1 1 2 3 3

3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

3 3 3 3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Great Eagle • Eleanora’s Diary • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • The Doughnuts • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • The Never-Ending Greenness • O Siem • Peace Begins With You • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Everybody’s Favourites • Roses Sing on New Snow • Little Green Men • A Palace for Aberbog

Enhance Presentation

• emphasize key ideas and information to enhance audience understanding and enjoyment

1 2 3 3 3 3

3 1 1 1 2

3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • The Last Place Sports Poems of

Jeremy Bloom • The Doughnuts • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • The Never-Ending Greenness • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Everybody’s Favourites • Roses Sing on New Snow

Use Effective Oral and Visual Communi-cation

• demonstrate control of voice, pacing, gestures and facial expressions; arrange props and presentation space to enhance communication

1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3

• The Night of the Pomegranate • The Great Eagle • Eleanora’s Diary • Let’s Talk Advertising • Seeing But Not Believing • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • The Never-Ending Greenness • O Siem • Peace Begins With You • Trapped In A Mechanical House • I Love the Look of Words… • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • Everybody’s Favourites • Roses Sing on New Snow • A Palace for Aberbog

Demonstrate Attentive Listening and Viewing

• identify the tone, mood and emotion conveyed in oral and visual presentations

3 3 1

• Seeing But Not Believing • The Doughnuts • O Siem


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Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Demonstrate Attentive Listening and Viewing (con’t)

• respond to the emotional aspects of presentations by providing nonverbal encouragement and appreciative comments

1 • Peace Is…

General Outcome 5 • Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.


Choosing Peace

Unit Selection 5.1 Respect Others and Strengthen Community

Appreciate Diversity

• compare personal challenges and situations encountered in daily life with those experienced by people or characters in other times, places and cultures portrayed in oral, print and other media texts

1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3

• It’s Easy to Dream • The Great Eagle • Cinder Edna • Rick Hansen • Eleanora’s Diary • Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came • Peace Is… • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Little Green Men

• share and discuss ideas and experiences that contribute to different responses to oral, print and other media texts

1 2 3 3 1 1 3

• Cinder Edna • Looking Inside the Body • Selling Your Sole • Seeing But Not Believing • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Little Green Men

Relate Texts to Culture

• identify ways in which oral, print and other media texts from diverse cultures and communities explore similar ideas

1 1

• Peacocks and Bandaids • One Day a Stranger Came

Celebrate Accomplish-ments and Events

• use appropriate language to participate in public events, occasions or traditions


Use Language to Show Respect

• demonstrate respect by choosing appropriate language and tone in oral, print and other media texts

1 • Rights of the Child

5.2 Work Within a Group


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General Outcome 5 • Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.


Choosing Peace

Unit Selection Cooperate with Others

• assume a variety of roles, and share responsibilities as a group member

1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

3

• Rick Hansen • The Killick • Space Songs • The Eloquent Young Elephant… • Peacocks and Bandaids • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • O Siem • Peace Begins With You • Learn About the Environment • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Little Green Men

• identify and participate in situations and projects in which group work enhances learning and results

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 2

3

• It’s Easy to Dream • Rick Hansen • The Killick • Space Songs • Looking Inside the Body • Eleanora’s Diary • Seeing But Not Believing • Peacocks and Bandaids • Rights of the Child • The Never-Ending Greenness • Peace Begins with You • Learn About the Environment • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • Little Green Men

Work in Groups

• contribute to group knowledge of topics to identify and focus information needs, sources and purposes for research or investigations

2 2 2 1 1 2

3

• Space Songs • Time Detectives • Eleanora’s Diary • Peacocks and Bandaids • Peace Begins With You • Robots: Past, Present, and

Future • A Palace for Aberbog

• address specific problems in a group by specifying goals, devising alternative solutions and choosing the best alternative

2 1 1 1 1

• Eleanora’s Diary • One Day a Stranger Came • Rights of the Child • O Siem • Peace Begins With You

Evaluate Group Process

• assess own contributions to group process, and set personal goals for working effectively with others

1 • Rights of the Child