Manitoba · Grade 8English Language Arts
The 2020 framework sets out four practices with learning described across grade bands rather than grade by grade. A draft K-8 ELA curriculum with grade-level outcomes and K-5 reading, writing and oral language progressions is being piloted (voluntary) in 2026/27.
OutlineLessons 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
1Language as Sense Making
2Language as Exploration and Design
3Language as Power and Agency
4Language as System