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Québec · Grade 5

English Language Arts

Language of instruction in English-language schools (for students eligible for English instruction).

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

C1To read and listen to literary, popular and information-based texts

Reading a wider range of literary and information texts; rhetorical patterns (sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect); fact vs opinion

C2To write self-expressive, narrative and information-based texts

Writing narratives, poetry, explanatory and persuasive texts; compound sentences, quotation marks, consistent verb tenses

C3To represent her/his literacy in different media

Analyzing and producing media texts: camera distance, perspective, audience and purpose

C4To use language to communicate and learn

Using talk to reflect, give feedback and present ideas