Saskatchewan English Language Arts
Last reviewed August 18, 2025.
Within the Saskatchewan English Language Arts Curriculum are reading, viewing and listening skills and strategies that are at the heart of critically investigating and evaluating sources of information. These include identifying who creates text and for what purpose, and drawing conclusions about the explicit and implicit messages that exist within texts and are the result of interacting with texts.
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 ideas, arguments, and influence of texts
- identify bias and stereotyping
Grade 8
- differentiate between fact and opinion and recognize biases and stereotypes
- identify strategies used to influence audience, including exaggeration
Grade 9
- differentiate between fact and opinion
- determine biases, stereotyping, and propaganda
Grade 10
- differentiate between fact and opinion
- identify and analyze propaganda techniques
- evaluate credibility
Grade 11
- differentiate between fact and opinion
- evaluate credibility, logic, truthfulness, trust, and validity
Grade 12
- differentiate fact from opinion
- identify and analyze propaganda techniques
- evaluate credibility
- assess the accuracy of information
- evaluate and verify facts and arguments