GRADE 5
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring time intervals to the nearest second; determining elapsed time; measuring temperature; converting from metres to centimetres and from kilometres to metres; relating the 12-hour clock to the 24-hour clock; developing and applying area and perimeter relationships for a rectangle; relating capacity and volume; developing and applying the volume relationship for a right rectangular prism
Geometry and Spatial Sense: distinguishing among polygons and among prisms; identifying acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles; measuring angles to 90° with a protractor; constructing triangles; constructing nets of prisms and pyramids; locating objects using the cardinal directions; performing and describing translations
Patterning and Algebra: representing a pattern using a table of values; predicting terms in a pattern; determining the missing numbers in equations involving addition, subtraction, multi- plication, or division and one- or two-digit numbers; investigating variables as unknown quantities; demonstrating equality using multiplication or division in equations with unknown quantities on both sides Data Management and Probability: collecting and organizing discrete and continuous data; displaying data using broken-line graphs; sampling data from a population; understanding mean; comparing two related sets of data; representing probability using fractions
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms
Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of and Changes in Matter
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Conservation of Energy and Resources
GRADE 6
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring quantities using metric units; converting from larger to smaller metric units, including square metres to square centimetres; developing and applying area relationships for a parallelogram and a triangle; developing and applying the volume relation- ships for a triangular prism; determining and applying surface area relationships for rectangular and triangular prisms; relating square metres and square centimetres
Geometry and Spatial Sense: classifying quadrilaterals by geometric properties; sorting polygons by lines of symmetry and by rotational symmetry; measuring angles to 180° with a protractor; constructing polygons; representing figures using views and isometric sketches; performing and describing rotations; plotting points in the first quadrant
Patterning and Algebra: representing patterns using ordered pairs and graphs; describing pat- tern rules in words; calculating any term when given the term number; investigating variables as changing quantities; solving equations using concrete materials and guess and check Data
Management and Probability: collecting and organizing discrete and continuous data; displaying data using continuous line graphs; selecting appropriate graphical representations; using continuous line graphs and mean to compare sets of data; finding theoretical probabilities; predicting the frequency of an outcome based on the theoretical probability
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Flight
Understanding Matter and Energy: Electricity and Electrical Devices
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Space
GRADE 7
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: converting between metric units, including converting between square centimetres and square metres; developing the area relationship for a trapezoid; developing and applying the formula for the volume of a prism; determining and applying surface-area relationships for prisms; relating millilitres and cubic centimetres
Geometry and Spatial Sense: constructing parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines; sorting and classifying triangles and quadrilaterals by geometric properties; constructing angle bisectors and perpendicular bisectors; investigating relationships among congruent shapes; relating enlarging and reducing to similar shapes; comparing similar and congruent shapes; performing and describing dilatations; tiling a plane; plotting points in all four quadrants
Patterning and Algebra: representing linear growing patterns; representing patterns algebraically; modelling real-life relationships involving constant rates graphically and algebraically; translating phrases, using algebraic expressions; finding the term in a pattern algebraically when given any term number; solving linear equations using concrete materials or inspection and guess and check
Data Management and Probability: collecting and organizing categorical, discrete, and continuous data; displaying data in relative frequency tables and circle graphs; identifying bias in data; relating changes in data to changes in central tendency; making inferences based on data; investigating real-world applications of probability; determining the theoretical probability of two independent events
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Form and Function
Understanding Matter and Energy: Pure Substances and Mixtures
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment
GRADE 8
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: converting between cubic centimetres and cubic metres and between millilitres and cubic centimetres; developing circumference and area relationships for a circle; developing and applying the formula for the volume of a cylinder; determining and applying surface-area relationships for cylinders
Geometry and Spatial Sense: sorting quadrilaterals by geometric properties involving diagonals; constructing circles; investigating relationships among similar shapes; determining and applying angle relationships for parallel and intersecting lines; relating the numbers of faces, edges, and vertices of a polyhedron; determining and applying the Pythagorean relationship geometrically; plotting the image of a point on the coordinate plane after applying a transformation
Patterning and Algebra: representing the general term in a linear sequence, using one or more algebraic expressions; translating statements, using algebraic equations; finding the term number in a pattern algebraically when given any term; solving linear equations involving one- variable terms with integer solutions using a “balance” model Data
Management and Probability: collecting categorical, discrete, and continuous data; organizing data into intervals; displaying data using histograms and scatter plots; using measures of central tendency to compare sets of data; comparing two attributes using data management tools; comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities; calculating the probability of complementary events
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Systems in Action
Understanding Matter and Energy: Fluids
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Water Systems