- Listen attentively to a range of texts from a variety of cultural
traditions for pleasure and information
- Connect new ideas, information, and experiences to construct
meaning
- Listen courteously and respond sensitively and thoughtfully to
others
- Listen to and follow three and four-step oral directions
- Listen purposefully to determine the main ideas and important
details
- Activate and build upon prior knowledge and experiences
- Set purposes for listening
- Use oral cues to construct and confirm meaning
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement
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- Participate in a variety of shared language experiences (e.g.,
read-alouds, reader’s theatre)
- Share ideas, observations, and experiences in structured small and
large group talk
- Prepare and present, to a familiar audience, narrative presentations
that relate events and experiences in a logical sequence
- Prepare and present information on a specific topic using print and
non-print aids to engage and inform a familiar audience
- Explain personal opinion and support it with reasons
- Experiment with language and non-verbal elements (e.g., gesture) to achieve
an effect for a particular purpose and audience
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement
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- Read grade-appropriate texts orally and silently with increasing
confidence, fluency, and accuracy
- Read a variety of texts for enjoyment and information
- Experience the work of Saskatchewan and other Canadian authors,
including Aboriginal authors
- Connect new information with prior knowledge to make sense of new
ideas and experiences
- Apply cueing systems to construct meaning
- Monitor for meaning during oral and silent reading
- Recognize the elements and organization of traditional stories
- Distinguish between cause and effect
- Recognize fact and opinion
- Begin to interpret figurative language
- Compare information within and among texts
- Use reference materials effectively (e.g., glossary, dictionary,
encyclopedia)
- Adjust reading rate according to purpose(s) for reading
- Ask critical questions
- Explain own point of view and provide evidence from text and
experiences
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement of reading habits,
skills, and strategies
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- Write personal narratives, factual accounts, explanations, stories,
summaries, and descriptions with increasing confidence, clarity, and
fluency
- Write focused beginnings, middles, and endings
- Understand and practise paragraphing
- Focus main idea in a topic sentence
- Organize ideas in an appropriate sequence
- Revise draft material by adding, deleting, and rearranging
ideas
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of written language
conventions including:
- indent paragraphs
- use complete sentences with proper capitalization and end
punctuation
- combine short, related sentences
- spell correctly common words and use a strategy to learn to spell
new words
- use the comma in direct quotations and apostrophes to show
possession; use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to identify
titles
- Write legibly using correct letter formation and consistent size and
spacing
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement
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- Participate in a variety of guided and independent viewing
experiences from a variety of cultural traditions
- Use visual cues to locate information and ideas, and to construct
and confirm meaning
- Identify intent and purpose of visual texts
- Compare different perspectives and ideas presented in visual
texts
- Begin to identify (with assistance) the values underlying a visual
text
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement of viewing skills and
strategies
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- Convey ideas using a variety of media
- Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of using a particular
medium
- Use visual aids to enhance spoken and written communication
- Use secondary sources to support the information they need to
communicate
- Experiment with different ways of representing and communicating
ideas
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement of representing skills
and strategies
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