Alberta English Language Arts and the Literacy and Numeracy Progressions
Last reviewed August 18, 2025.
The reading, viewing and listening skills within the Alberta English Language Arts Curriculum and the Literacy and Numeracy Progressions connect to CTRL-F strategies of critically investigating and evaluating information. This includes identifying who creates texts and for what purposes, drawing conclusions about the explicit and implicit messages in texts, and determining the impact texts may have on those who read and view them.
CTRL-F Learning Outcomes link explicitly to the English Language Arts Curriculum across grades. The following chart lists Indicators that are especially relevant.
Grade 7
- evaluate the reliability and validity of information
- distinguish between fact and opinion
Grade 8
- evaluate the reliability and validity of information
Grade 9
- evaluate sources for reliability, credibility and bias, and address gaps in information
Grade 10
- evaluate sources and assess credibility and accuracy
- describe, use, monitor and adjust strategies to evaluate information sources for credibility and bias
Grade 11
- evaluate sources and assess credibility and accuracy
- describe, use, monitor and adjust strategies to evaluate information sources for credibility and bias
- describe the possible effects of biases on the credibility of information
Grade 12
- evaluate sources and assess credibility and accuracy
- describe, use, monitor and adjust strategies to evaluate information sources
- describe possible biases and vested interests of sources
- explain how underlying assumptions, biases, and spin affect credibility