Skills and performance criteria 

EFL 5.2.6 Use new words and expressions which occur in conversations in the personal and educational domains, and make use of such terms and expressions wherever appropriate and necessary. 

Skills and performance criteria 

EFL 5.3.1. Find specific predictable information in short, simple texts in a range of age-and level-appropriate topics. (Example: biographies, news articles, narratives, memoirs and personal accounts, formal letters and emails, etc.) 

EFL 5.4.7. Use the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, peer editing and proofreading (i.e., “the writing process”) to produce wellconstructed informational texts. 

Skills and performance criteria 

EFL 5.3.2. Identify and use reading strategies to make informative and narrative texts comprehensible and meaningful. (Example: skimming, scanning, previewing, reading for main ideas and details, using structural and context clues, cognates, format, sequence, etc.) 

CE.EFL.5.11. Identify and apply a range of reading strategies in order to make texts meaningful and to select information within a text that might be of practical use for one’s own academic needs. 

EFL 5.5.2. Make predictions, inferences and deductions to demonstrate different levels of meaning of literary texts presented orally or in digital form, including literal and implied meanings. (Example: summarizing, explaining and identifying, word choice, symbols, points of view, etc.) 

EFL 5.1.3. Find parallels between Ecuadorian cultural and political referents and those of other countries by talking about holidays, symbols, customs and schooling 

EFL 5.3.4. Find the most important information in print or online sources in order to support an idea or argument. (Example: Internet search engines, online advertising, online or print timetables, web pages, posters, adverts, catalogues, etc.) 

EFL 4.2.1. Understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority within the personal and educational domains, provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated. (Example: daily life, free time, school activities, etc.) 

EFL 4.4.7. Use the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, peer editing and proofreading (i.e., “the writing process”) to produce well constructed informational texts. 

FL 4.5.4. Create personal stories by adding imaginative details to reallife stories and situations, using appropriate vocabulary and elements of the literature learners have read or heard.