Use oral language to clarify and extend personal understanding, interact courteously with others (e.g., share ideas and opinions, complete tasks, discuss concerns or problems), and sustain conversations by extending others' contributions.

Select and use appropriate strategies (before, during, and after) to communicate meaning when speaking

Understand and apply the suitable pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues and conventions to construct and communicate meaning when speaking.

Organize and present ideas chronologically or around major points of information.

Provide a beginning, a middle, and an end and include concrete details that develop a central idea and link words to organize and present their ideas.

Deliver brief recitations and oral presentations (including reporting to class) about familiar experiences or interests, organized and focused on a central idea.

Make narrative presentations, providing a context for an incident and insight into why the selected incident is memorable, and include well-chosen details to develop character, setting, and plot.

Retell a narrative including an oral story from a First Nations and Métis perspective.

Read prose, scripts, and poetry including First Nations and Métis texts aloud with fluency, expression, and appropriate pace, using intonation and vocal patterns to emphasize important ideas and passages of the text being read.

Plan and present, with clear diction, pitch, tempo, and tone, dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.