Listen to and interpret 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 listening.

Understand and apply language cues and conventions to construct and confirm meaning when listening 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 oral 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; determining their meaning by context, structure (meanings of prefixes, roots, and suffixes), sound, or use of reference sources such as glossary, dictionary, thesauruses, and available technology to determine meanings and usage.
• Graphophonic cues: recognizing and comprehending the structure and patterns of high-frequency, topic-specific, and new words encountered in listening; identifying and explaining word structure and patterns that help support understanding.
• Other cues: recognizing non-verbal cues and body language, gestures, facial expression, sound, visual, and multimedia aids used to enhance presentation.

Demonstrate active listening behaviours including:

• concentrating, focusing, and attending
• filtering distractions
• analyzing explicit and implicit messages, viewpoints, and concepts
• recognizing overall organization
• identifying and analyzing persuasive techniques
• evaluating credibility and logic
• using effective notemaking strategies and a variety of written or graphic forms to organize and share ideas acquired from what was listened to
• preparing and asking relevant questions and responding appropriately
• analyzing the overall effectiveness of the text.

Engage in reflective, critical, empathic, and appreciative listening.

Identify the language features and their effects in a range of oral and multimedia texts and describe and analyze their relationships to meaning, purpose, and audience.

Listen to and interact appropriately with others (e.g., consider others' ideas) to communicate and explore understanding, information, ideas, and opinions.

Identify attitudes and beliefs, relating them to personal experience and knowledge of other texts; and compare texts listened to in terms of attitudes and beliefs, viewpoints, and explicit and implied messages.

Listen respectfully to an invited guest with expertise on the subject, and make notes on the key points as well as the speaker's purpose, attitude, and organization of ideas for effect.

Listen to a recorded speech and note the language features that were employed.