What are learning outcomes?

Learning outcomes are the skills and content students are expected to master by the end of a course.

In grade 11 it is expected that students will:

Oral Language (Speaking and Listening)

Purposes (Oral Language)

A1 interact and collaborate in pairs and groups.
A2 express ideas and information in a variety of situations andforms.
A3 listen to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate ideas and information from a variety of texts.
A4 select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to interact and collaborate with others in pairs and groups.
A5 select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to prepare oral communications.
A6 select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to express ideas and information in oral communications.
A7 use listening strategies to understand, recall, and analyse a variety of texts.
A8 speak and listen to make personal responses to texts.
A9 speak and listen to interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts.
A10 speak and listen to synthesize and extend thinking.
A11 use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their speaking and listening.
A12 recognize and apply the structures and features of oral language to convey and derive meaning.

  Reading and Viewing
Purposes (Reading and Viewing)

B1 read, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a wide variety of literary texts.
B2 read, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a wide variety of information and persuasive texts with increasing complexity and subtlety of ideas and form.
B3 view, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of visual texts, with increasing complexity of ideas and form.
B4 independently select and read, for sustained periods of time, texts for enjoyment and to increase Fluency.
B5 before reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to anticipate content and construct
meaning.
B6 during reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning.
B7 after reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to extend and confirm
meaning, and to consider author’s craft.
B8 explain and support personal responses to texts.
B9 interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts.
B10 synthesize and extend thinking about texts.
B11 use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their reading and viewing.
B12 recognize and explain how structures and features of text shape readers’ and viewers’ construction
of meaning and appreciation of author’s craft.
B13 demonstrate increasing word skills and vocabulary knowledge.
Writing and Representing
Purposes (Writing and Representing)

C1 write meaningful personal texts that elaborate on ideas and information.
C2 write purposeful information texts that express ideas and information.
C3 write effective imaginative texts to develop ideas and information.
C4 create thoughtful representations that communicate ideas and information
C5 select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to generate, develop, and organize ideas for writing and representing.
C6 select, adapt, and apply a range of drafting and composing strategies while writing and representing.
C7 select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to revise, edit, and publish writing and representing.
C8 write and represent to explain and support personal responses to texts.
C9 write and represent to interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts.
C10 write and represent to synthesize and extend thinking.
C11 use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their writing and representing.
C12 use and experiment with elements of style in writing and representing, appropriate to purpose
and audience, to enhance meaning and artistry.
C13 use and experiment with elements of form in writing and representing, appropriate to purpose
and audience, to enhance meaning and artistry.
C14 use conventions in writing and representing, appropriate to purpose and audience, to enhance
meaning and artistry.