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British Columbia · Grade 9

English Language Arts

Language and story bring creativity and joy; texts are socially, culturally and historically constructed

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

AStory/text

Forms, functions and genres of text; text features; literary elements and devices; visual/graphic elements of text

BStrategies and processes

Reading, oral language and metacognitive strategies; writing processes

CLanguage features, structures, and conventions

Multi-paragraph writing, language change, style, usage, syntax and sentence fluency, conventions, rhetorical devices, connotation and denotation