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New Brunswick English Language Arts

The CTRL-F: Verification Skills learning outcomes link explicitly to New Brunswick’s English Language Arts curriculum. The relevant curricular outcomes are listed by grade level and course below.

Last updated September 2, 2025.

 

GRADE 7

English Language Arts 7

Strand: Reading

  • Analyze the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Describe the relationships between language, topic, genre, purpose, context, and audience
    • Recognize that texts need to be assessed for bias
    • Detect prejudice, stereotyping and bias and how language is used to manipulate, persuade, or control

 

GRADE 8

English Language Arts 8

Strand: Reading

  • Critically analyze the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Evaluate the effectiveness of the different elements of an author’s style/technique in creating meaning and impact, using evidence
    • Examine texts for bias
    • Respond critically to how a text employs language to manipulate, persuade, or control and propose alternative perspectives

 

GRADE 9

English Language Arts 9

Strand: Interactions

  • Persuade and support ideas and opinions with evidence.
    • Use evidence objectively, identifying, and critiquing generalizations and bias
    • Communicate persuasively citing evidence free from generalizations and bias
  • Respond personally and critically to a variety of text.
    • Evaluate oral presentations and stories, and multimodal text citing incomplete information, outstanding questions, and possibilities for further elaboration

Strand: Reading

  • Independently select, read, and examine critically a variety of texts representing all voices.
    • Examine texts for bias
    • Analyze the meaning of a variety of texts by exploring alternative worldviews
  • Critically analyze and evaluate the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Explain relationships between language, topic, genre, purpose, context, and audience
    • Detect and articulate bias in text
    • Evaluate the veracity of a claim by distinguishing between sound and fallacious reasoning

 

GRADE 10

English Language Arts 10, Foundational and Extended

Strand: Reading

  • Independently select, read, construct meaning from, and evaluate a variety of texts of increasing complexity representing all voices.
    • Assess the truth of a claim by distinguishing between sound and false reasoning
    • Explain how the different elements of author’s style/technique create meaning and impact
    • Evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of text forms and how they contribute to understanding the text
    • Examine texts for bias
  • Critically analyze and evaluate the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Explore relationships between language, topic, genre, purpose, context, and audience
    • Challenge bias in a variety of text

 

 

GRADE 11

English Language Arts 111/2/3, Foundational and Extended

Strand: Reading

  • Independently select, read, construct meaning from, and evaluate a variety of texts of increasing complexity representing all voices.
    • Analyze meaning from a variety of text forms, including print and non-print texts
    • Assess the truth of a claim by distinguishing between sound and false reasoning
  • Critically analyze and evaluate the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of text forms and describe how they contribute to understanding the text
    • Challenge bias in a variety of text and suggest alternate perspectives

 

GRADE 12

English Language Arts 121/2/3

Strand: Reading

  • Independently select, read, construct meaning from, and evaluate a variety of texts of increasing complexity representing all voices.
  • Critically analyze and evaluate the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.
    • Evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts and describe how they contribute to understanding
    • Challenge bias in a variety of texts, suggest alternate perspectives, and articulate shifts in personal viewpoints and ideas

Canadian Literature 120

Strand: Analytical Thinking

  • Critically and analytically evaluate the characteristics, language, forms, features, and genres of a range of Canadian texts with diverse voices and perspectives.
    • Articulate how purpose, audience, language, topic, form, genre, content, and context are interconnected
  • Demonstrate knowledge about the geographical, historical, social, and cultural contexts of texts.
    • Research background/history, social and cultural contexts to bring depth of understanding to a text
  • Apply critical evaluation skills.
    • Explore socio-political implications and cultural significance of a variety of texts

Strand: Cultural Awareness

  • Reflect on the impact of text on personal worldview.
    • Explain how text can impact the viewer’s worldview
    • Reflect on how personal worldview may evolve with exposure to media
  • Examine how Canadian texts work to reveal and produce values, identities, and positions.
    • Explain how authors of texts are influenced by their worldview and experiences
    • Analyze how authors’ worldviews influence their work
    • Draw conclusions and critique the impact of text on audience worldview

Strand: Interactions

  • Critically reflect on the contributions of others to formulate and refine understanding.
    • Identify, respond to, and respectfully challenge perspectives and potential bias
    • Analyze how the delivery of a message can influence, control, and manipulate
    • Critically examine the use of language to identify ideas, values, and worldviews

Journalism 120

Strand: Integrity

  • Follow a code of ethics and understand legal obligations.
    • Discuss how information is gathered and communicated responsibly and ethically

Strand: Production

  • Produce and present stories in a relevant and engaging format across various journalism texts.
    • Explore effective strategies for researching and verifying information

Strand: Impact

  • Demonstrate varied message interpretations, the inclusion/exclusion of values and perspectives, and the role of journalists in shaping beliefs, values, and behaviors.
    • Research strategies for the evaluation of content and determine if a source is reliable
    • Examine how language and structures are used to inform and influence the audience
    • Employ critical literacy questions while interacting with a journalism text
    • Determine the authority of journalists and investigate whether tone, mission, and intended audience are contributors to potential bias
  • Recognizes the impact of economic, social, historical, and political forces on journalism.
    • Discuss how journalism is influenced by online platforms and citizen reporting, and articulate the implications
    • Critically analyze information to identify missing voices
    • Critique potential sources of privilege and power (e.g., propaganda disguised as news)
    • Discern the difference between objective reporting and perspective pieces
  • Examine the journalistic landscape in Canada.
    • Explore and reflect on past, current, and emerging technologies and how these have shaped society and human thought, perception, and practice related to journalism

Media Studies 120

Strand: Consumption

  • Employ critical literacy skills as media consumers.
    • Use media terminology (authorship, audience, content, purpose, format, etc.)
    • Identify codes and conventions of media
    • Examine other’s ideas and points of view presented, recognizing absent voices
    • Question and reflect on the role of the consumer
    • Evaluate and discriminate media consumption
    • Discuss how format influences audience and purpose
    • Critique effectiveness of media representation
    • Explore the concept of access to media
  • Examine how media influence and affect cultures.
    • Investigate the role of media in modern society
    • Articulate how media messages influence and manipulate audiences
  • Pre-bunk information portrayed through social media, apps, and digital tools.
    • Explore various forms of digital media, social media, deep fake technology and A.I.
    • Determine the impacts of social media on communication, connection, and language
  • Analyze values and ideologies in media texts.
    • Discuss ideologies present in media
    • Explore the role of propaganda
    • Analyze headlines and how they influence our perception
  • Discern the production process of media text.
    • Evaluate the ways in which texts are constructed for a particular purpose
    • Investigate the impact of deliberate choices made to create meaning 
  • Develop critical understandings of documentary and journalism text.
    • Examine authorship and how it applies to documentary and journalism text
    • Critique the portrayal of misinformation and the role of ethics

 

References:

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. Canadian Literature 120. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/canadian-literature-120/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language 9. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-9/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language Extended 10. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-extended-10/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language Foundation 10. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-foundational-10/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language Foundation 111/2/3 Extended. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-111-2-3-extended/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language Foundation 111/2/3 Foundational. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-111-2-3-foundational/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. English Language Arts 121/2/3. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/english-language-arts-121-2-3/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. Middle Block: English Language Arts. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/middle-block/english-language-arts/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. Media 120. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/media-studies-120/

New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development. Journalism 120. NB Curriculum Framework. Retrieved August 26, 2025, from https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/high-school-block/language-arts-and-languages/journalism-120/