There are many strategies that readers use when making sense of text. Students consider what strategies they need to use to “unpack” text. They employ strategies with increasing independence depending on the purpose, text, and context. Strategies include but may not be limited to predicting, inferring, questioning, paraphrasing, using context clues, using text features, visualizing, making connections, summarizing, identifying big ideas, synthesizing, and reflecting.

includes speaking with expression, connecting to listeners, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, summarizing, paraphrasing

• thinking about our own thinking, and reflecting on our processes and determining strengths and challenges
• Students employ metacognitive strategies to gain increasing independence in learning.

There are various writing processes depending on context. These may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising, and/or editing. Writers often have very personalized processes when writing. Writing is an iterative process.

elements of the text that are not considered the main body. These may include typography (bold, italics, underlined font), font style, guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/text boxes.

(e.g., circular, iterative, cyclical)

First Peoples stories often have protocols for when and where they can be shared, who owns them, and who can share them.

literary or thematic categories (e.g., adventure, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, folklore, historical, horror, legend, mystery, mythology, picture book, science fiction, biography, essay, journalism, manual, memoir, personal narrative, speech) and narrative structures: circular, iterative, cyclical

utilisation de motifs, de thèmes, de voix, d’images, de connaissances, de récits, de chansons, d’œuvres dramatiques ou d’autres manifestations de nature culturelle sans autorisation, dans un contexte inapproprié ou dénaturant l’expérience vécue par les personnes appartenant à la culture d’origine

aspects d’une culture qui dépendent de la représentation visuelle