Adapt language and presentation style to the purpose and needs of the audience, and guide the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation.

Select and use pertinent before, during, and after strategies to construct meaning when speaking.

Understand and apply cues and conventions including pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and others to communicate meaning when speaking.

Present effective introductions and conclusions that guide the listener's understanding of important ideas and evidence, use appropriate structure for conveying key information (e.g., cause and effect, similarity and difference), and use details, examples, anecdotes, or experiences to explain or clarify information.

Make narrative presentations that relate ideas, observations, or recollections about an event or experience, provide a context that enables the listener to imagine the circumstances of the event or experience, and provide insight into why the selected event or experience is memorable.

Make narrative presentations that retell a traditional First Nations and Métis narrative.

Make informational presentations that frame a key question, include facts and details that help listeners to focus, and incorporate more than one source of information (e.g., interviews, books, newspaper articles, and television or radio reports).

Deliver oral summaries that contain the main ideas and the most significant details of articles and books.

Recite brief poems (e.g., two or three stanzas), monologues, or dramatic dialogues using clear diction, tempo, volume, and phrasing.

Make individual contributions to class discussion by expressing ideas, opinions, and feelings and interact with others to share ideas and opinions, ask for support, complete tasks, and explain concerns or problems.