BC English Language Arts Report Card Comments, K-Grade 3
English Language Arts in BC is organized around two groups of curricular competencies: comprehend and connect (reading, listening and viewing) and create and communicate (writing, speaking and representing). It includes First Peoples stories and oral traditions, and how story connects people to family, community and land.
Below are 9 sample sentences for K-Grade 3: one strength and one next step for each of the 4 comment levels (Extending / Proficient / Developing / Emerging), plus a tip for families. They are a small selection from the 144 English language arts sentences in the full pack. Copy one, then add a detail only you know about the student.
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Extending X
Strengths
- After listening to a story, [Name] retells it in order with rich detail and can explain why the main character made an important choice.
Next step
- A further challenge is to create an original story through pictures, words or both, then change one event or character choice and explain how that change affects the ending.
Proficient P
Strengths
- [Name] can retell a story in order using the beginning, middle and end, and names the characters and setting.
Next step
- [Name] is ready to move on to longer books and to explain how the characters feel and why, using clues from the words and pictures.
Developing D
Strengths
- When retelling a story, [Name] remembers several important events and is working on putting them in the right order, with picture cards as support.
Next step
- Practising sounding out and blending short words each day, with letter cards at school and at home, will help [Name] read new words more smoothly.
Emerging E
Strengths
- After hearing a familiar story, [Name] can name the main character and is beginning to retell one or two events with picture support.
Next step
- Working on a few letter sounds at a time with an alphabet chart will help [Name] begin to sound out short words in simple books.
Support at home
- Asking "How do you know?" when your child shares an opinion about a book, show or movie helps them practise backing up ideas with reasons.
How to write English language arts comments for K-Grade 3
- Name the reading strategy you saw, such as using letter sounds to work out a word, rereading when something does not make sense or using pictures to predict, rather than only a reading level. Families can ask for the same strategy during home reading.
- For writing, describe what the child can put on the page now: a labelled drawing, a sentence with a capital and a period, or a short story with a beginning, middle and end. Pick the next step from the same list.
- Oral language counts in K-3. Mention retelling a story in order, taking turns in a sharing circle or adding expression when reading aloud, since these are part of the learning standards, not extras.
Watch out: Avoid letting reading level or the number of books read stand for the whole area. ELA covers reading, writing, speaking and listening, so add a strength from a second competency, such as oral storytelling or revising writing.
The Ministry's guidelines describe Emerging as an initial understanding of the concepts and competencies, Developing as partial, Proficient as complete and Extending as sophisticated. Proficient is the goal and does not mean perfect; Extending is about depth and complexity, not extra work or work from a higher grade. Here the four names only choose the wording: report the indicator itself in your reporting tool, and let the comment describe the learning behind it.
What English Language Arts covers
Big ideas and curricular competencies for English language arts:
- Comprehend and connect: reads, listens to and views stories and other texts, using strategies such as predicting, questioning, visualizing and making connections
- Comprehend and connect: explains main ideas, characters and story elements, makes inferences, and responds to texts with reasons, evidence and different perspectives
- Explores First Peoples stories and oral traditions, and how story connects people to family, community and land
- Create and communicate: plans, drafts, revises and edits writing and other texts for different purposes and audiences
- Create and communicate: exchanges ideas in discussion, presentations and oral storytelling
- Uses word knowledge (letter-sound links and phonics in K-3, word parts later), Canadian spelling, grammar and punctuation
More British Columbia subjects comments
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- For the same report: BC Core Competencies Report Comments, K-9
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