Skill Descriptor: Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, SGC, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives
• Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning

Skill Descriptor: Persuade, and support ideas and opinions with evidence.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Justify perspectives with evidence
• Consider social context when choosing and communicating evidence
• Refine arguments by selecting facts, anecdotal evidence, and experiences that consider multiple perspectives
• Communicate persuasively, citing evidence free from generalizations and bias

Skill Descriptor: Curate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions considering target audiences.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Make informed selections of content to communicate
• Present content in a manner that connects with audience and purpose

Skill Descriptor: Use language of harmony and respect, self-monitoring and adjusting as appropriate.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Advocate for the inclusivity of language
• Critically evaluate others’ use of helpful, respectful, and equitable language to reflect on and improve use of language
• Communicate using thoughtful and respectful language free from prejudice, stereotyping, or bias

Skill Descriptor: Seek and provide clarification to synthesize understanding of ideas and concepts, problems and solutions.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Ask and respond to perceptive and probing questions to seek further information and extend understanding and/or determine next steps
• Critically select resources to support ideas, concepts, or claims

Skill Descriptor: Understand and use communication conventions for a diverse set of audiences.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Communicate with sensitivity and respect
• Use conventions flexibly to reflect an understanding of the audience perspective, context, and purpose

Skill Descriptor: Respond personally and critically to a variety of text.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Respond to oral presentations and stories, and multi-modal text citing reactions, interpretations, and understandings
• Respond to oral presentations and stories and multi-modal text, providing thoughts and opinions

Skill Descriptor: Adjust interactions to reflect the situation, audience, and purpose.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Use conversational conventions that honour the needs, rights, and feelings of others
• Engage in active listening

Skill Descriptor: Critically reflect on the contributions of others to formulate and refine understanding.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Consider multiple ways of knowing when evaluating the ideas of others
• Identify and respond to the perspective and potential bias implicit within a speaker’s contribution
• Analyze the power of language to influence and manipulate
• Critically examine the use of language to identify ideas, values and worldviews

Skill Descriptor: Efficiently use word structure knowledge to independently interpret unfamiliar and technical words.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Competently interpret unknown words using a variety of cues (morphology, dividing into syllables, root words and origins, background knowledge, context clues), references, and assistive technology
• Explain the choice of strategy when interpreting new words in texts (meta-cognition)

Skill Descriptor: Read unfamiliar texts with accuracy and expression, both silently and aloud.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Read a variety of increasingly complex text forms smoothly and with confidence, rehearsing chunks of texts as needed
• Flexibly use dimensions of fluency (intonation, stress, pausing, phrasing, tone, & volume) to convey meaning in a variety of increasingly complex texts
• Self-assess silent reading
• Rehearse and self-correct chunks of texts as needed

Skill Descriptor: Use a range of strategies to determine the meaning of new vocabulary in all texts.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Independently and flexibly use different strategies for internalizing new vocabulary words from increasingly complex texts
• Explain the choice of strategy when interpreting new vocabulary in texts (meta-cognition)

Skill Descriptor: Construct meaning from a variety of text considering the source, intended audience, and purpose.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Construct and articulate literal and inferred meaning of complex texts with connections to the theme and/or purpose
• Refer to relevant textual details/features when inferring
• Use text features to interpret information and infer meaning
• Use text structure and organization to construct meaning
• Identify and articulate connections between texts across genres by purpose, audience, and/or theme
• Concisely summarize and synthesize key information from a variety of increasingly complex sources

Skill Descriptor: Self-monitor and incorporate multi-component comprehension strategies to clarify understanding of a range of text.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Adjust comprehension strategies as needed
• Explain use of meta-cognitive processes when reading
• Construct meaning from a variety of text forms, including print and non-print texts
• Respond accurately to many literal questions when reading longer, denser texts
• Review and locate information using text

Skill Descriptor: Examine and respond personally to a range of texts across genres, interests, and complexities, citing evidence.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe how a text has impacted changes in personal viewpoint/ideas
• Express relationships among texts, personal experiences, and prior knowledge to make connections between current social and moral issues
• Select insightful textual details that support responses and demonstrate an understanding of structure, form, and genre

Skill Descriptor: Independently select, read, construct meaning from, and evaluate a variety of texts of increasing complexity representing all voices.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain preferences for, and choice of, reading material
• Communicate purpose of text selection related to learning needs
• Analyze meaning from a variety of text forms, including print and non-print texts
• Interpret information using text features
• Explain how events/main ideas are related to theme
• Assess the truth of a claim by distinguishing between sound and false reasoning
• Explain how the different elements of author’s style/technique create meaning and impact
• Identify and reflect on ways in which various diversities, cultures, genders, socioeconomic groups, etc. are portrayed in texts

Skill Descriptor: Critically analyze and evaluate the characteristics, language, form, features, and genre of a range of texts.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Evaluate author’s effectiveness, using textual support
• Evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of text forms and describe how they contribute to understanding the text
• Interpret relationships between ideas to draw conclusions or make comparisons with increasingly complex text
• Support responses with relevant details
• Explore how purpose, audience, language, topic, genre, and context are interconnected
• Challenge bias in a variety of text and suggest alternate perspectives

Skill Descriptor: Implement effective writing/representing strategies to enhance clarity and control in multi-modal texts.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine a variety of mentor texts to guide creation
• Articulate rationale for which writing/representing processes work best in relation to audience and purpose
• Refine organization frameworks to manage content, collect ideas, and generate new knowledge and perspectives
• Interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
• Independently and collaboratively draft cohesive text, making critical choices about what to include or exclude
• Clarify, strengthen and refine by adding, deleting, substituting, and rearranging text
• Attend to audience experience, often by reading aloud; adjust elements of composition
• Apply knowledge of copyright/plagiarism (including the use of A.I.)

Skill Descriptor: Create with purpose and understand the influence of the writer/creator.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Develop a specific topic with a main idea/thesis that captures the purpose and audience
• Sustain focus throughout
• Develop original, thoughtful, and compelling ideas to support meaning

Skill Descriptor: Define a specific topic with a main idea/thesis/claim that supports an identifiable purpose and specific audience.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Include purposeful paragraphing with skilful transitions between elements where required
• Craft a purposeful structure to present details that support the main idea
• Vary internal structure and features to enhance interest while maintaining control
• Impact the reader with a dynamic and effective introduction and conclusion where appropriate

Skill Descriptor: Select interesting and domain specific words and phrases to convey and enhance meaning.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Use vivid and varied vocabulary; make effective use of words and phrases
• Employ literary devices to enhance meaning and impact
• Begin to use language judiciously; attend to parallel structure

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate evidence of author’s style, personality, and experience.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Skillfully connect with the audience (e.g., communicate feelings, energy, individuality, sincerity, and/or convictions with appropriate tone for the task)
• Demonstrate commitment to the topic, sometimes by organizing content in a distinctive or unique way
• Reveal writer’s perspective as appropriate to the purpose, audience and context

Skill Descriptor: Include varied, well-crafted sentences to support meaning and readability.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Arrange sentences into fluid paragraphs where required
• Vary sentence structure and length for reasons of craft, including the creation of meaning

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate correct use of the conventions of the selected form with increasing sophistication.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate control of internal punctuation, grammatical structures, capitalization, and spelling
• Skillfully use the conventions of the selected form to enhance meaning, voice, and readability
• Use a range of text characteristics to enhance meaning where appropriate
• Reference all source content (including A.I.), using appropriate formatting and available technology