Curriculum Competency

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

• Analyze how First Peoples languages and texts reflect their cultures, knowledge, and worldviews; how different features reflect a variety of audiences and messages

• Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources

• Select strategies for inquiry and comprehension

• Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas related to texts

• Recognize and identify personal, social, and cultural contexts in texts

• Appreciate and understand how language constructs and reflects identities

• Construct meaningful connections between self, text, and world

• Demonstrate understanding of the role of story and oral traditions in expressing First Peoples values and perspective

• Understand and evaluate how literary elements enhance and shape meaning and impact

• Analyze the diversity and influence of land/place in First Peoples societies represented in texts, as well as assessing it authenticity

• Examine the significance of terms/words from First Peoples languages used in English texts, and discern nuances in the meanings of words in wide contexts

• Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions

​​​Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)

• Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build share understandings and extend thinking

• Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of contexts in different purposes

• Apply appropriate oral communication for intended purposes

• Express and support opinions with evidence

• Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways

• Use writing and design processes to create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

• Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact

• Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts

• Use the conventions of First Peoples and other Canadian spelling, syntax, and diction proficiently and appropriately to the context

• Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles

• Recognize intellectual property rights and protocols and apply as necessary