Identify key idea(s) and purpose of pictures, graphics, models, and photographs.

Use strategies to construct and confirm meaning when viewing:

• make connections to background knowledge (before)
• identify important ideas and events (during)
• recall (after).

Understand and apply language cues and conventions to construct and confirm meaning when viewing:

• recognize the variations of language use at home, on the playground, and in the classroom (pragmatic)
• describe characteristics of fiction texts (textual)
• develop a sense of sentence (syntactic)
• show curiosity in words and their sounds (lexical/semantic)
• develop phonological awareness (graphophonic)
• recognize how gestures and body language communicate part of the message (other cues and conventions).

Volunteer personal experiences and feelings prompted by various visuals.

Identify supporting details.

Compare similarities and differences such as colour, type of visual, and object placement between various texts such as pictures, photographs, and 3-D models.

Interpret emotions portrayed in visual texts including models, photographs, dramas, dance creations, and video programs.

Describe the visual texts and give reasons for liking/disliking them.

View and interpret key aspects including arrangement and facial expression by interpreting the following questions:

• What are the objects or facts in the picture?
• What do the objects or facts tell you?
• How are the objects arranged in the visual?
• Why are these objects placed in this way?
• How do the objects help the story or fact?
• What are the characters doing?
• Compare different authors/illustrations considering the illustration or art work and interesting details.