Deliver focused and coherent presentations that engage the audience with appropriate verbal cues, facial expressions, and gestures; that convey ideas clearly; and that relate to the background and interests of the audiences.

Select and flexibly use appropriate strategies (before, during, and after) to communicate meaning when speaking.

Understand and apply relevant pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues and conventions to communicate meaning when speaking.

Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation; decide what to say and how to say it; clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples.

Deliver narrative presentations that establish a situation, plot, point of view, and setting with descriptive words and phrases and show the listeners, through the explanations and narration, what happens.

Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, issue, or event by framing questions to guide listeners, establishing a central idea or topic, and developing the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.

Deliver a narrative from a First Nations and Métis tradition that follows the teaching of the oral tradition.

Deliver oral responses to literary and other texts (including First Nations and Métis texts) or presentations that include both personal responses and textual evidence or examples from the work to support insights and conclusions.

Participate in a variety of oral presentations including dramatization (role play), discussion circles, introducing a visitor to the class or school, and giving directions.

Fulfill role as group member and respect and respond sensitively to the ideas, opinions, and interpretations of others.