Use words, symbols, and other forms, including appropriate technology, to express understanding of topics, themes, and issues related to identity, community, and social responsibility.

Dictate to another person and compose stories that tell personal feelings, ideas, experiences, opinions, observations, and reactions.

Create stories, explanations, poems, and dramatizations using known patterns and later developing own patterns.

Create stories and short informational texts of several sentences to communicate ideas and information about self, others, and the natural and constructed environments.

Use inquiry to explore a question or topic of interest related to the themes and topics being studied:

• Discuss personal knowledge and understanding of a topic to discover research interests and needs.
• Use the language of inquiry (e.g., "I want to find out if ...", "I know ...").
• Ask questions to satisfy personal curiosity on a topic and discuss information needs.
• Ask and answer questions to help satisfy group curiosity and information needs on a specific topic.
• Answer questions using visual, multimedia, oral, and print sources.
• Understand that resource centre materials have a specific organization system and use titles to locate information and ideas.
• Recognize when information answers the questions asked.
• Collect and organize relevant ideas and information.
• Represent and tell key ideas and facts in own words.
• Share with peers and teacher what was learned through inquiry.