Know and use the conventions of oral language interaction, in a variety of contexts, including class groups, for a range of purposes, such as asking for information, stating an opinion, listening to others, informing, explaining, arguing, persuading, criticizing, commentating, narrating, imagining, speculating.
Engage actively and responsively within class groups in order to listen to or recount experiences and to express feelings and ideas. Engage in extended and constructive discussion of their own and other students’ work.
Listen actively in order to get the gist of an account or presentation noting its main points and purpose. Deliver a short oral text, alone and/or in collaboration with others, using appropriate language, style, and visual content for specific audiences and chosen purposes.
Listen actively in order to interpret meaning, compare, evaluate the effectiveness of, and respond to drama, poetry, media broadcasts, digital media, noting key ideas, style, tone, content, and overall impact in a systematic way.
Read texts with fluency, understanding, and competence, decoding groups of words/phrases, and not just single words.
Use a wide range of reading comprehension strategies appropriate to texts, including digital texts: to retrieve information; to link to previous knowledge, follow a process or argument, summarize, link main ideas; to monitor their own understanding; to question, analyze, synthesize and evaluate.
Engage in sustained private reading as a pleasurable and purposeful activity, applying what they have learned about the effectiveness of spoken and written texts to their own experience of reading.
Identify and comment on features of word and sentence level using appropriate terminology, showing how such features contribute to overall effect.
Write for a variety of purposes, for example to analyze, evaluate, imagine, explore, engage, amuse, narrate, inform, explain, argue, persuade, criticize, comment on what they have heard, viewed and read.
Use editing skills continuously during the writing process to enhance meaning and impact: select vocabulary, reorder words, phrases and clauses, correct punctuation and spelling, reorder paragraphs, remodel, manage content.
Respond imaginatively in writing to their texts showing a critical appreciation of language, style, and content, choice of words, language patterns, tone, images. Write about the effectiveness of key moments from their texts commenting on characters, key scenes, favorite images from a film, a poem, a drama, a chapter, a media or web-based event.
Use and apply knowledge of language structures, for example sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar, to make their writing a richer experience for themselves and the reader.
Evaluate writing proficiency and seek remedies for those aspects of writing that need to be improved.