Page 170 - The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-12: English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development, 2007

Grade 11E,LDUnLieverls5it,yOPpreenparation
1. write in a variety of forms for different purposes and audiences;
2. organize ideas coherently in writing;
3. use correctly the conventions of written English appropriate for this level, including grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation;
4. use the stages of the writing process.
1. Writing for Different Purposes 2. Organizing Ideas in Writing
3. Developing Accuracy in Writing
WRITING
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
Academic Purposes
1.1 write longer and more complex texts to con- vey information and ideas for academic pur- poses using a wide variety of forms (e.g., a series of linked paragraphs synthesizing informa- tion from an independent research project about the changing role of technology; a news report using the five-W’s format; a mystery story using the structures and conventions of the genre; a report outlining the steps in a science experiment)
Personal Purposes
1.2 write longer and more complex texts to express ideas and feelings using a wide variety of forms (e.g., poems, song lyrics/raps, blogs, e-mails or letters, narratives, descriptions, journal entries)
Community and Workplace Purposes
1.3 write longer and more complex texts to com- municate information for official and personal purposes using a wide variety of forms (e.g.,
a résumé and cover letter; an online purchase agreement; a letter of complaint to a customer
service department; a letter to cancel a contract, service, or subscription)
By the end of this course, students will:
Organizing Ideas
2.1 organize information to develop a central idea in a structured composition of three or more paragraphs (e.g., use a graphic organizer to map cause-and-effect relationships for a report about an endangered species; use the five-W’s format in a newspaper article about a real or imaginary community event)
Teacher prompt: “Are there any key ideas that are missing or that need more explanation?”
Linking Ideas
2.2 use a wide variety of connecting devices and transition words and phrases to show rela- tionships between ideas in linked sentences and paragraphs (e.g., now that, as a result of, because of, although, even though)
By the end of this course, students will:
Grammatical Structures and Conventions of Print
3.1 use correctly the grammatical structures and print conventions of written English appro- priate for this level (see the Language Reference Chart for ELD Level 5 on pages 172–173)
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