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British Columbia · Grade 8

English Language Arts

People read texts differently depending on their worldview; 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; relevance, accuracy and reliability

BStrategies and processes

Reading, oral language and metacognitive strategies; writing processes

CLanguage features, structures, and conventions

Oral language features, multi-paragraph writing, usage in context, elements of style, syntax and sentence fluency, conventions, presentation