Norwegian subject curriculum (NOR1-04)

Competence aims after Year 7

Oral texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• perform in various language roles through role play and drama, reading aloud, interviews and presentations
• listen to others, express and give rationales for one's own points of view and show respect for the ideas of others
• discuss and elaborate on how language can express and create attitudes in relation to individuals and groups
• discuss, elaborate on and asses fiction based on personal experiences and with understanding of language and content
• give a reasoned opinion on other people’s oral presentations
• present subject–matter orally with awareness of recipients, with or without aids

Written texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• read a diverse range of texts from different genres and varied complexity in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages: Norwegian and translated texts, fiction and non-fiction
• formulate interpretations of the texts that were read
• expression one's own experience of and give grounds for own opinions about the texts that were read
• use a number of reading strategies to read various types of text at varied speeds
• give accounts of and summarise the main elements of a text, in one's own words
• present personal responses from fiction and factual books orally and in writing
• recognise and pronounce the letters of the Sami alphabet
• write cohesively with personal and functional handwriting
• use personal reading experiences when writing fiction and factual prose
• experiment with different language styles when writing in the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages, dialects and group language
• structure text chronologically and according to themes and make text cohesive between sentences and paragraphs
• master orthography, punctuation, a varied vocabulary and the use of varied sentence syntax
• assess strong and weak sides of one's texts and those of others
• use encyclopaedias and dictionaries
• use digital writing tools in writing processes and in production of interactive texts
• use a library and digital information channels in a focused manner
• explain copyright rules relating to the use of texts taken from the internet

Composite texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• understand, interpret and compare information from a number of forms of expression in a composite text
• create composite texts with images, illustrations etc. and varied fonts into a larger whole, manually and using digital tools
• use songs, music and images in performances and presentations
• use aesthetic techniques in one's own text productions
• evaluate texts, TV shows, advertising, music, drama and films and give grounds for personal media habits
• process digital texts and discuss the effects

Language and culture

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• present own interpretations of characters, plots and themes in a varied selection of children's and youth literature in Bokmål and Nynorsk and in translation from Sami
• find linguistic characteristics in one's community and compare with other dialects
• explain some similarities and differences between spoken and written language, relating to both the first-choice and second-choice Norwegian languages
• explain how texts are made, using terms from grammar and text analysis
• read and reproduce the content of simple literary texts in Danish and Swedish