Prince Edward Island

4 Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

• select texts that address their learning needs and range of special interests

• read widely and experience a variety of young adult fiction and literature from different provinces and countries

• demonstrate an understanding that information texts are constructed for particular purposes

  • Identify audience and purpose (9-B.2)

• use cueing systems and a variety of strategies to construct meaning in reading and viewing increasingly complex print and media texts

  • Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
  • Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (9-C.2)
  • Interpret figures of speech (9-C.4)
  • Identify supporting evidence in a text (9-H.4)
  • Word pattern analogies (9-O.1)
  • Word pattern sentences (9-O.2)
  • Words with pre- (9-O.3)
  • Words with re- (9-O.4)
  • Words with sub- (9-O.5)
  • Words with mis- (9-O.6)
  • Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (9-O.7)
  • Words with -ful (9-O.8)
  • Words with -less (9-O.9)
  • Words with -able and -ible (9-O.10)
  • Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots (9-P.1)
  • Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (9-P.2)
  • Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (9-P.3)
  • Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (9-P.4)
  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (9-P.5)
  • Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words (9-R.1)
  • Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions (9-R.2)
  • Analogies (9-T.1)
  • Analogies: challenge (9-T.2)
  • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (9-U.1)
  • Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (9-U.2)
  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word (9-U.3)

• articulate their own processes and strategies for reading and viewing text of increasing complexity

5 Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

• independently access and select specific information to meet personal and learning needs

  • select, from a wide range, sources appropriate to their purposes

  • use the electronic network

  • develop approaches and strategies to conduct their research

6 Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.

• respond to some of the material they read or view by questioning, connecting, evaluating, and extending

  • move beyond initial understanding to more thoughtful interpretations

• express and support points of view about texts and about issues, themes, and situations within texts, citing appropriate evidence

  • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (9-H.3)

7 Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.

• critically evaluate information presented in print and media texts

  • assess relevance and reliability of available information to answer their questions

    • Distinguish facts from opinions (9-H.1)

• demonstrate that print and media texts are constructed for particular purposes and particular audiences

  • describe how specific text and genre characteristics contribute to meaning and effect

    • Which text is most formal? (9-B.1)
    • Identify audience and purpose (9-B.2)
    • Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
    • Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
    • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)
    • Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence (9-S.1)

• respond critically to texts of increasing complexity

  • analyse and evaluate a text in terms of its form, structure, and content

    • Which text is most formal? (9-B.1)
    • Identify audience and purpose (9-B.2)
    • Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
    • Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
    • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)

  • recognize how their own ideas and perceptions are framed by what they read and view

  • demonstrate an awareness that personal values and points of view influence both the creation of text and the reader's/viewer's interpretation and response

  • explore and reflect on culture and reality as portrayed in media texts

  • identify the values inherent in a text