Listen attentively to others and respond appropriately.

Use strategies to construct and confirm meaning when listening:

• 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 listening:

• 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).

Follow simple directions correctly and independently (e.g., Please put away your crayons and put your picture on the shelf.) and remember instructions given earlier.

Listen to traditional and contemporary stories from a variety of cultures including First Nations and Métis.

Listen for different purposes (e.g., to retell, to direct others, for enjoyment).

Identify important information.

Ask questions for clarification, and make comments relevant to the topic.

Connect story events and own experience.

Engage in conversations with others in an exchange of ideas, comments, or questions.