• Write to inform
• Recognize writing as a constructive and recursive process.
• Develop ideas rather than just restating them.
• Use various methods of development and organization appropriate to purpose.
• Revise and polish compositions.
• Practise the behaviours of effective writers.
• Write a convincing argument in support of a clearly defined position (CCT).
• Use appropriate prewriting and planning strategies.
• Experiment with a variety of forms of writing, including poetry.
• Compose effective paragraphs.
• Revise and polish compositions.
• Analyze and evaluate their own and other's writing for ideas, organization, sentence clarity, word choice, and mechanics.
• Develop independence regarding the monitoring and evaluating of writing experiences (IL).

• Recognize listening as an active constructive process
• Practise the behaviors of effective listeners
  Summarize information (COM).
• Listen in order to assess positions on issues.

• Practise the behaviors of effective, strategic readers.
• Read a variety of texts for a variety of purposes.
• Explore human experiences and values reflected in texts (PSVS)
• Recognize the structure and characteristics of a particular short story.
• Practise the behaviours of effective, strategic readers.
• Relate literary experience to personal experience (PSVS).
• Assess an author's ideas and techniques (CCT).
• Develop and articulate defensible points of view on issues reflected in texts.
• Recognize stereotyping.
• Compare and contrast the structure and characteristics of various selections.
• Test ideas and values against ideas in text.
• Evaluate critical information obtained form viewing a video.

Participate in small and large group discussions, observing the courtesies of group discussion (PSVS).

Speak to clarify and extend thinking (COM).

Prepare an oral reading of a poem.

Practise the behaviors of effective speakers.

Speak to share thoughts, opinions, and feelings (COM).

• Record responses in a reader's journal, log, or notebook (COM).
• Respond sensitively to the ideas, comments, and products of others (PSVS).
• Practise the behaviours of effective viewers.
• View in order to assess positions on issues.
• Recognize language techniques and media conventions in television, film, and video presentations.
• Express own response to a poem (COM).

• Words can have connotative as well as denotative value.
• Modes of discourse might describe, narrate, explain, or persuade.
• Prose has distinctive and various organizational patterns.