Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate understanding of routine tasks, short aural texts, and related questions about familiar topics.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate understanding of the topic or main idea of a brief and familiar conversation or discussion
• Identify agreement and disagreement in a conversation or discussion
• Demonstrate understanding of a simple, clear explanation of how to do something and ask for clarification, especially if there is a demonstration
• Demonstrate understanding of short, simple stories and reports when they are shared clearly and slowly
• Demonstrate understanding of the main information in a short, aural description
• Demonstrate understanding of short, straightforward audio-visual clips

Skill Descriptor: Communicate during routine and familiar tasks and handle short social exchanges.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Use common numbers in daily situations
• Give simple instructions
• Make plans with other people
• Ask and answer simple questions about events in the past
• Describe plans for the future
• Ask for and give opinions, and agree and disagree, in a simple way
• Have short social exchanges with friends
• Pronounce familiar words clearly enough to be generally understood, although conversational partners will have to ask for repetition from time to time

Skill Descriptor: Express ideas on familiar topics by giving short, organized descriptions, expressing personal opinions, and sharing everyday experiences in a simple way.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Give a brief presentation (live, recorded, to a partner or to a larger group) on a topic of interest
• State what I like or dislike about a book, a song, a place, or an event and give simple reasons
• Describe my plans for the future
• Describe familiar experiences and events using simple language
• Tell a story or recount an event or memory, with details
• Pronounce common and familiar words clearly, using intelligible intonation
• Say what I usually do at home or in free time

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate awareness and use of a variety of reading strategies.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Make supported predictions before reading
• Identify key words and extract specific details in a text
• Make personal and text-based connections to increase understanding of texts on familiar topics
• Recognize and use text features to gain additional information
• Use context to deduce the meaning of unknown words in a short, simple text on a familiar topic
• Read aloud, with support, sometimes changing tone to convey meaning
• Identify features of various text forms
• Ask questions to check for understanding
• Use a variety of decoding strategies to sound out new words

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate understanding of short, simple texts on topics that are familiar and/or of interest.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Retell a story (based on reading or viewing), with the support of a graphic organizer
• Identify the basic plot, the main characters, and the basic setting of a simple story
• Demonstrate understanding of short simple texts on familiar subjects, especially when they are illustrated
• Demonstrate understanding of short, simple messages from friends

Skill Descriptor: Produce short texts showing emerging grammatical complexity and accuracy.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Correctly use uppercase letters and final punctuation
• Use simple punctuation within sentences correctly, some of the time
• Write with reasonable phonetic accuracy words from oral vocabulary
• Spell common words correctly
• Use simple structures well enough to be understood; a few mistakes with verb tenses and agreement will still be present
• Use the most frequently occurring connectors to link simple sentences and some compound sentences to tell a story or describe something

Skill Descriptor: Produce short texts with main ideas using new and studied words and expressions that relate to the topic.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Write a description, with some detail
• Write a text that contains a series of logically organized simple sentences on a personal or familiar topic.
• Write about events and experiences by describing what happened, when, and where
• Give an example of something using “like” or “for example”

Skill Descriptor: Compose short texts for specific purposes.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Write short texts about personal or familiar topics, or to express immediate needs
• Use simple sentences and common compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions
• Participate in written exchanges
• Write simple messages to convey information and/or reply to an invitation or change plans

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate a growing awareness of culture and cultural norms, and social and school-related norms within the multicultural Canadian context.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Communicate main idea from one language to another related to factual subjects
• Briefly describe the concept of rights as a member of various communities
• Briefly describe the concept of responsibilities as a member of various communities
• Describe aspects of culture, including cultural artefacts and other examples
• Use common expressions and follow basic routines for socializing.

Skill Descriptor: Use strategies for academic and personal success, with minimal support.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Use a variety of self-selected resources to help me learn English
• Work collaboratively with peers
• Reflect on progress and adjust learning strategies based on strengths and challenges
• Ask people beyond the classroom to repeat or explain when needed, and ask questions to ensure spoken language is understood by others
• Set learning goals and monitor personal progress, with support
• Organize personal classroom learning materials
• Share strengths, needs, and interests, providing examples and details