View, interpret, and summarize grade-appropriate literary and informational texts created by First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international authors from various cultural communities.

Select, use, and evaluate purposefully a variety of before (page 24), during (page 25), and after (page 26) strategies to construct meaning when viewing.

Understand and apply language cues and conventions to construct and confirm meaning when viewing including:

• Pragmatic cues: recognizing and understanding formal English and how stylistic choices affect the meaning and impact of the message; recognizing different English dialects and problems inherent in "standard" English supremacy.
• Textual cues: recognizing and understanding the distinctive formats of a range of visual and multimedia texts and their textual and organizational features.
• Syntactic cues: recognizing and comprehending basic English sentence structures including common kernel structures and how they have been expanded with qualifiers and how they have been compounded and transformed (as questions, exclamations, inversions, negatives).
• Semantic/Lexical/Morphological cues: recognizing and comprehending when and how words are used in a concrete or abstract and a denotative or connotative way.
• Graphophonic cues: recognizing and comprehending the structure and patterns of high-frequency, topic-specific, and new words encountered in viewing.
• Other cues: recognizing and comprehending textual features such as graphic aids (e.g., diagrams, graphs, timelines, table of contents and index) and illustrations (e.g., photographs, images, drawings, sketches); recognizing intonation, nonverbal cues and body language; recognizing gestures, facial expression, sound, visual, and multimedia aids that were used to enhance presentation.

Demonstrate active viewing behaviours including:

• determine what the text is representing
• identify and analyze how the text was constructed
• identify the intended audiences and points of view in the text
• infer the assumptions, interests, beliefs, and values embedded in the text and the credibility and purpose of the author
• recognize language and media techniques and conventions in television, film, and video presentations
• analyze how the text uses argument, images, placement, editing, and music to create emotion and impact
• evaluate and critique the persuasive techniques.

Analyze contrasting texts, evaluating the ways verbal and non-verbal (visual and multimedia) features are organized and combined for different meanings, effects, purposes, and audiences in different social contexts.

Investigate the source of media presentation or production including who made it, why, and for whom it was made.

Evaluate how genders and various cultures and socio-economic groups are portrayed in mass media.

Prepare and present a critical response to what was viewed.

View and discuss the meaning and characterization implicit in the action of a scene from a play, film, television production (e.g., dialogue, movement, physical position of characters), noting visual features (e.g., set, costumes, and character appearance).

Discuss the characterization, mood, and historical setting achieved by an actor and director in a live performance or film version of a play.