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Writing Listening
  • Use various methods of development and organization appropriate to purpose.
  • Write a letter in a language appropriate to purpose and audience (COM).
  • Develop and articulate defensible points of view on issues reflected in texts.
  • Write fluently and confidently for a variety of purposes (COM).
  • Write to inform.
  • Use what is known as the writing process.
  • Practise the behaviours of effective listeners.
  • Anticipate a message and set a constructive purpose for listening.
  • Recognize listening as an active, constructive process.
  • Summarize main points and conclusions (COM).
  • Listen in order to assess positions on issues.
  • Summarize and make notes from a presentation.
Reading Speaking
  • Respond personally, critically and creatively
  • Relate literary experience to personal experience
  • Explore human experiences and values reflected in texts (PSVS)
  • Develop an awareness and appreciation of Canadian dialects and Canadian Literature.
  • Analyze and evaluate.
  • Compare and contrast the structure and characteristics of various selections.
  • Recognize the structure and characteristics of a particular nonfiction prose selection.
  • Relate literary experieince to personal experience (PSVS).
  • Read a variety of texts for a variety of purposes.
  • Practise the behaviours of effective, strategic readers.
  • Identify the author's purpose, tone, point of view, and theme.
  • Participate in small and large group discussions PSVS
  • Speak to build relationships and a sense of community
  • Speak to share thoughts and opinions
  • Practive the behaviours of effective speakers
  • Recognize that talk is an important tool for communicating, thinking, and learning (COM).
  • Speak to clarify and extend thinking (COM).
Responding, Representing and Viewing
  • Present thoughts, ideas, feelings using an appropriate combination of charts, diagrams, pictures, audiotapes, slides, models, drama, and print.
  • An appropriate word suits the purpose, audience, and situation.
  • Identify the purposes, intended audiences, messages, and points of view in posters.
  • Respond personally, critically, and creativly (PSVS).
  • Record responses in a reader's journal, log or notebook.
Language concepts
  • An appropriate word suits the purpose, audience, and situation.
  • Effective communication uses language appropriate to the subject, audience, purpose, and situation.