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Listening |
Speaking |
- Listen attentively for pleasure and information
- Listen attentively to others’ ideas and paraphrase information
shared
- Follow three-step directions
- Respond appropriately to questions about what has been presented
orally
- Make connections between own and others’ ideas and experiences
- Use the language cueing systems in oral text to construct
meaning
- Make inferences
- Form sensory images
- Reflect on listening behaviours and strategies
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- Contribute to shared language experiences (e.g., choral reading,
drama, reader’s theatre, puppetry)
- Share ideas and information through group talk
- Retell stories and experiences using logical sequence and
appropriate facts and details
- Read aloud informally and for an audience
- Recite poems, rhymes, verses, and finger plays
- Give directions
- Generate and contribute ideas on particular topics
- Adjust own language use for different situations
- Clarify information by responding to questions
- Reflect on speaking behaviours and strategies
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Reading |
Writing |
- Read a range of grade-appropriate texts for enjoyment and
information
- Discuss similarities and differences in stories and informational
texts
- Locate different kinds of books in resource centres (e.g., picture
books, easy reads, nonfiction, fiction)
- State and explain preferences for a variety of texts
- Read aloud with fluency, accuracy, and expression
- Set a purpose for reading
- Connect new texts with prior knowledge and experiences
- Predict what will happen next based on previously read material and
background experiences
- Use the cueing systems in text to construct meaning
- Form sensory images
- Make inferences
- Recognize that reading must make sense and follow appropriate steps
to self-correct when it does not
- Read accurately most high frequency words (about 150) and many
irregularly spelled words in texts
- Use knowledge of commonalities in word families to increase
vocabulary
- Recall facts and details from text
- Connect and compare information from texts to experience and
knowledge
- Reflect upon own reading behaviours, skills, and
strategies
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- Write patterned stories, original stories, learning logs, poetry,
riddles, friendly letters, messages, and notes
- Write short informative reports and narratives when given help with
organization
- Work through the stages of a writing process including pre-writing,
drafting, beginning to revise, and sharing
- Begin to organize writing with a clear beginning, middle, and
ending
- Arrange ideas and information to make sense
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of written language
conventions including:
- write complete sentences, using capital letters and periods
- use a variety of spelling strategies such as approximations, and
confirm spelling by using resources such as word wall
- spell many high frequency words correctly and use familiar spelling
patterns
- begin to include the question mark and some commas
- Print legibly to form letters and words of consistent size, shape,
and spacing
- Share own writing with others and respond to suggestions
- Reflect upon own writing behaviours and
strategies
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Viewing |
Representing |
- Engage in shared, guided, and independent viewing experiences with a
variety of texts
- Use visual cueing systems in text to construct meaning
- Identify and appreciate how visual elements (e.g., colour, font) add
meaning to visual texts
- Interpret illustrations, photographs, diagrams, maps, graphs, and
other visual texts
- Talk about similarities and differences among visual expressions
from various cultures and communities
- Reflect upon own viewing habits, skills, and
strategies
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- Use a variety of media (e.g., sketches, posters, drama, video) to
enhance communication
- Consider and choose from a variety of forms and ways (e.g., drama,
model, diagram) to communicate ideas to a particular audience for a
particular purpose
- Combine oral, print, and other media to organize and communicate key
ideas, feelings, and information
- Generate ideas on particular topics for individual and group
creations
- Reflect on representing skills and strategies
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