Read, comprehend, and explain the human experiences and values reflected in various literary and informational texts created by First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international authors from various cultural communities.

Select, use, and evaluate purposefully a variety of before (page 24), during (page 25), and after (page 26) strategies to construct meaning when reading.

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

• Pragmatic cues: recognizing and understanding formal English and how stylistic choices affect the meaning and impact of the message; recognizing different English dialects and problems inherent in "standard" English supremacy.
• Textual cues: recognizing and understanding the distinctive formats of a range of written texts and their textual and organizational features.
• Syntactic cues: recognizing and comprehending basic English sentence structures including common kernel structures and how they have been expanded with qualifiers and how they have been compounded and transformed (as questions, exclamations, inversions, negatives).
• Semantic/Lexical/Morphological cues: recognizing and comprehending when and how words are used in a concrete or abstract and a denotative or connotative way; determining their meaning by context, structure (meanings of prefixes, roots, and suffixes), sound, or use of reference sources such as glossary, dictionary, thesauruses, and available technology to determine meanings and usage.
• Graphophonic cues: recognizing and comprehending the structure and spelling patterns of high-frequency, topic-specific, and new/unfamiliar words encountered in reading; identifying and explaining word structure and spelling patterns that help support understanding.
• Other cues: recognizing and comprehending textual features such as graphic aids (e.g., diagrams, graphs, timelines, table of contents and index) and illustrations (e.g., photographs, images, drawings, and sketches) that enhance text.

Demonstrate active reading behaviours including:

• establishing a purpose for reading such as to learn, interpret, and enjoy
• skimming, scanning, and reading closely
• identifying and analyzing explicit and implicit messages, viewpoints, and concepts
• recognizing and analyzing text structures and elements (e.g., description, compare/contrast, cause and effect, chronological sequence)
• relating understanding of a range of texts to personal experiences, purposes, audiences, and other texts
• identifying and analyzing persuasive techniques
• evaluating credibility and logic
• testing ideas and values
• recognizing and comprehending allusions and symbols
• constructing images based on text descriptions
• discussing and analyzing meanings, ideas, language, and literary and informational quality in a range of contemporary and historical texts
• using notemaking and outlining to enhance understanding of texts.

Read and interpret critically the main ideas, events, and themes of a variety of literary texts including stories, novels, scripts, poetry, and non-fiction works, and prepare, present, and defend critical responses to what is read.

Read and make generalizations, supported by specific details and examples, about key concepts, characters, themes, and techniques in literary texts.

Select and read independently for information and enjoyment a wide variety of classical and contemporary literary and informational texts.

Analyze the structure and format of functional workplace documents (e.g., memos, proposals, reports, correspondence), and explain how authors use the structure and features to achieve their purposes.

Interpret, explain, analyze, and discuss how the literary qualities and the distinctive conventions, structures, and language features of a range of texts suit the topic and purpose.

Use available technologies to retrieve, select, and interpret information from a variety of sources.