As stated in the NL curriculum guide:

"Students speak and listen to express themselves and communicate ideas through oral language. “Talk is the bridge that helps students make connections between what they know and what they are coming to know.” (Booth, 1994) To make meaning through oral language students must activate prior knowledge, ideas and experiences; monitor their thinking (i.e., meta-cognition); and reflect on experiences, ideas and beliefs. Students are more likely to share ideas and actively listen in a classroom environment that supports risk-taking in open conversations and discussions. They should make connections between what they hear, read or view and what they create through speaking, writing and representing. The triple Venn diagram represents the interconnectedness among these processes and making meaning."

Students should be able to:

• Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

• Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.

• Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.

As stated in the NL curriculum guide:

"Reading and viewing provides students with opportunities to interact with a variety of media and diverse texts. Reading and viewing are complex cognitive processes that involve making meaning of digital and paper texts. Making meaning requires multiple, simultaneous processes, including but not limited to activating and connecting to prior knowledge, ideas and experiences; navigating through texts; and using cueing systems (pragmatic, syntactic, graphophonic, and semantic) to comprehend content. In reading and viewing, students must decode, understand, evaluate, navigate and reflect on all available forms of texts."

Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

Students should be able to:

• select and read a variety of texts, forms, and genres appropriate for specific purposes.

• use text structures to construct meaning.

• use text features to construct meaning.

• use strategies to make sense of texts.

• reflect on their development in reading and viewing.

EPIC CLASS CODE: kgt4937

As stated in the NL curriculum guide:

"Writing and representing allows students to express themselves and communicate ideas by creating a variety of media and diverse texts. Representing language graphically to communicate a message is a complex cognitive process. It involves multiple, simultaneous processes, including but not limited to: activating and connecting to prior knowledge, ideas and experiences; generating and composing imagined ideas; and recreating and consolidating information from a variety of sources. In writing and representing, students must decode, understand, evaluate and create a variety of forms and reflect on the creation process."

Students should be able to:

• Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings ; and to use their imaginations.

• Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.

• Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.