View, listen to, read, and respond to a variety of visual, multimedia (including digital), oral, and print texts that address the grade-level themes and issues related to identity, social responsibility, and efficacy including those that reflect diverse personal identities, worldviews, and backgrounds (e.g., appearance, culture, socio-economic status, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, language, career pathway).

Demonstrate comprehension and response to visual, oral, print, and multimedia (including digital) texts by:

understanding the ideas in texts by clearly, completely, and accurately summarizing and explaining the explicit and implicit messages and main ideas (including setting, main characters, conflicts, events) in texts; citing details that support the main ideas; making logical inferences; interpreting obvious themes or author's message logically.

understanding how texts are organized and presented for effect (and use the text structures and features) to construct meaning and evaluate craft and technique (e.g., elements) of different types of text including visual (e.g., colour), multimedia (e.g., special effects), oral (e.g., tone), and print fiction (e.g., short story, drama, poetry, novel) and non-fiction (e.g., autobiography, biography, informational, newspaper, reference) and organizational structure within different texts (e.g., problem/solution, compare/contrast, cause/effect, order of importance, chronological).

responding to and interpreting texts by responding with clear, complete, and accurate information that includes specific references to the texts; offering reactions and opinions about texts; making, explaining, and justifying reactions and personal connections to texts; making explicit and deliberate connections with previous knowledge and experiences; giving opinions and making judgements supported by reasons, explanations, and evidence; drawing conclusions about ideas on the basis of evidence; making logical interpretations of the author's message; making and supporting inferences about characters' feelings, motivations, and point of view.

Recognize key characteristics and elements and techniques of a variety of visual, multimedia (including digital), oral, and print texts.

Access, view, listen to, read, and respond to a variety of digital texts including electronic texts that have multiple links and sound, video, animation, and/or virtual reality.

Discuss own and others' understanding of various community and cultural traditions in various times and places as portrayed in a variety of visual, multimedia, oral, and print texts.

Consider potential impact of visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts.

Compare various oral, visual, multimedia, and written text forms and genres.