Listen to, interpret, and summarize grade-appropriate literary and informational texts created by First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international authors 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 listening.

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

• Pragmatic cues: recognizing and comprehending language registers that are varied and used for effect (e.g., characterization, dialect) and that have been influenced by the context (e.g., community in which it was learned).
• Textual cues: recognizing and comprehending the organization of thoughts and ideas of a range of oral texts and their organizational features.
• Syntactic cues: recognizing and comprehending how word order and sentence patterns communicate meaning in English and also when they do not communicate clearly.
• Semantic/Lexical/Morphological cues: using a dictionary or other source to determine a word's meaning(s) and etymology.
• Graphophonic cues: recognizing the correct form and usage of a word.
• Other cues: recognizing and comprehending how features including voice production factors (e.g., articulation, tone, tempo, pronunciation, volume, emphasis, pitch, pause) and non-verbal cues (e.g., gestures, stance, eye contact) clarify intent of message.

Demonstrate active listening behaviour including:

• concentrate, focus, attend, and filter distractions
• analyze explicit and implicit messages, viewpoints, and concepts
• recognize overall plan or organization including transitional expressions
• paraphrase what was listened to and heard
• distinguish fact from opinion
• identify and analyze persuasive techniques
• evaluate perspective, credibility, and logic
• use effective notemaking strategies and a variety of written or graphic forms to organize, summarize, and share ideas acquired from listening
• prepare and ask relevant questions and respond appropriately
• analyze the overall effectiveness of the message.

Understand the factors that interfere with good listening (e.g., environment, speaker, listener) and filter out distractions.

Prepare and present critical response to what was listened to and heard supporting conclusions with reference to what was presented.

Apply appropriate listening strategies when interviewing (including preparing and asking relevant questions, making notes, responding correctly and effectively, compiling and reporting responses).

Formulate and support judgements (using convincing evidence) about the ideas under discussion.

Listen to and evaluate several excerpts from a range of phone-in talk-back shows about a particular issue.