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 a message, with intention, to impact

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

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

Achievement Indicators:

• Justify perspectives with credible evidence
• Consider social and political context when choosing and communicating evidence
• Refine arguments for impactful delivery of facts, evidence, experiences, and 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 intentional selections of content to communicate
• Present content in a purposeful manner that engages the audience

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 use of helpful, respectful, and equitable language to reflect and improve
• 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 extend and enact understanding
• Critically select resources to support or challenge 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 deliberately and 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 identities, 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, respond, and challenge perspectives and potential bias implicit within a speaker’s contribution
• Analyze how the delivery of a message can influence, control, and manipulate
• Critically examine the use of language to identify ideas, values, and world views

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, pace & volume), to convey meaning in a variety of increasingly complex texts
• Attend to rate (or pace) to read accurately
• Adjust all dimensions of fluency to match form and purpose
• 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 and use relevant textual details/features/structure to infer and interpret meaning
• Identify and articulate connections between texts 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 texts.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Flexibly use comprehension strategies
• Articulate their processes when exploring, interpreting, and reflecting on sophisticated texts (meta-cognition)
• Respond accurately to many literal questions when examining complex texts
• Accurately assess the significance of information and consistently distinguish between main and supporting ideas

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 impact and changes personal viewpoint/ideas
• Express relationships among texts, personal experiences, and prior knowledge to make connections between historical, social, political, and moral issues
• Systematically research and select relevant citations to support assertions
• 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 related to learning needs and interests
• Use text features to preview, interpret, locate information, and infer the author’s meaning and purpose
• Explain how characters/events/main ideas work to advance a theme
• Explain how the different elements of author’s style/technique create meaning and impact audience

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 evidence
• Evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts and describe how they contribute to understanding
• Interpret relationships between ideas, within, across, and beyond texts, to draw conclusions or make comparisons with increasingly complex texts
• When inferring or responding critically, support responses with specific and relevant details and textual evidence
• Articulate how purpose, audience, language, topic, genre, and context are interconnected
• Challenge bias in a variety of texts, suggest alternate perspectives, and articulate shifts in personal viewpoints and ideas
• Identify and reflect on ways in which various diversities, cultures, genders, socioeconomic groups, etc. are portrayed in texts

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, form, mode, 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 to enhance impact
• Independently and collaboratively draft cohesive texts, making critical choices about what to include or exclude
• Clarify, strengthen and refine by adding, deleting, substituting, and rearranging text
• Attend to audience experience, and revise as needed
• 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 supports the purpose and audience
• Maintain a clear and narrow focus
• Develop original, thoughtful, and compelling ideas to support on 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:

• Create effective transitions between elements (ideas, sentences, paragraphs) to clarify complex ideas and relationships
• Craft a purposeful structure to present details that support the main idea/thesis
• Vary internal structure and features to enhance interest while maintaining control
• Impact the reader with a dynamic and effective introduction and conclusion

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

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Use precise and interesting words and rich, domain-specific vocabulary
• Employ literary devices to enhance meaning and impact
• Use language judiciously; maintain parallel structures

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

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Skillfully engage the audience (generate strong feelings, energy, individuality, sincerity, and/or convictions with appropriate tone for the task)
• Convey dedication to the topic, theme, and purpose, often though unique or original choices
• 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:

• Use coherent paragraphs; vary paragraph lengths to create interest; attend to transitions
• Deliberately vary sentence structure and length for reasons of craft, including the creation of a rhythmic flow, and meaning

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

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Consistently and skilfully use internal punctuation, grammatical structures, capitalization, and spelling (using reference tools when necessary)
• Skillfully use the conventions of the selected form to enhance meaning, realize voice, and demonstrate creativity
• Use a range of text characteristics for impact
• Reference all source content (including A.I.), using appropriate formatting and available technology (APA, etc.)