View, comprehend, interpret, and summarize grade-appropriate visual and multimedia texts created by First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international developers and artists from various cultural communities that address identity, social responsibility, and personal agency.

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 communication cues and conventions to construct and confirm meaning when viewing including:

• Pragmatic cues: recognizing and comprehending language registers that are varied and used for effect.
• Textual cues: recognizing and comprehending the organization of thoughts and ideas of a range of visual and multimedia texts and their organizational features.
• Syntactic cues: recognizing and comprehending a variety of sentence patterns for communicating and clarifying meaning.
• Semantic/Lexical/Morphological cues: using a dictionary or other source to determine a word's meaning(s).
• Graphophonic cues: recognizing the correct form and usage of a word.
• Other cues: recognizing and comprehending how features including graphic aids (e.g., diagrams, graphs, timelines) support and enhance the message.

View, interpret, and draw conclusions about the ideas and information presented in a variety of illustrations, maps, charts, graphs, and other visual texts.

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

Recognize persuasive techniques (including propaganda) being used in visual and multimedia texts, and analyze and assess the impact of specific media, techniques, and designs.

Prepare and present critical response to what was viewed.

Identify and evaluate the verbal and visual features including images, colour, layout, graphics, and messages in consumer products (e.g., clothing, electronic products, food, entertainment services).

Respond to and discuss various meanings, ideas, and effects describing how verbal and static and moving visual features are combined for different purposes and audiences in CD covers, posters, and videos of popular songs and singers.

Attend a performance of a play and discuss the specific scenes, main character, and technical production aspects of the presentation.