Newfoundland and Labrador English Language Arts

Last reviewed August 18, 2025.

The reading, viewing and listening skills within the Newfoundland and Labrador English Language Arts Curriculum 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

  • assess the reliability of information in texts
  • recognize that texts can be biased
  • identify the values inherent in a text

Grade 8

  • assess the reliability of information in texts
  • recognize that texts can be biased
  • identify the values inherent in a text

Grade 9

  • assess the reliability of information in texts
  • determine how texts can be biased
  • evaluate the realities presented in texts and identify values inherent in texts

Grade 10

  • evaluate information from a variety of sources
  • justify how texts reveal ideologies and identities
  • examine how media texts construct notions of reality

Grade 11

  • evaluate information from a variety of sources
  • determine biases, ideologies, identities, and positions in texts
  • examine how media texts construct notions of reality

Grade 12

  • evaluate information from a variety of sources
  • determine ideologies, identities, and positions in texts
  • examine how media texts construct notions of reality