View and respond to grade-appropriate visual and multimedia texts created by First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, and Canadian artists and authors from various cultural communities.

Select deliberately and use effectively a variety of before (page 27), during (page 28), and after (page 29) strategies to construct and confirm meaning when viewing texts.

Use language cues and conventions (page 24) of a variety of informational and literary texts to construct and confirm meaning when viewing.

Demonstrate critical viewing behaviours:

• Determine what the text is representing
• Identify and analyze how the text was constructed
• Identify the purposes, intended audiences, messages, points of view, and techniques of the text
• Infer the assumptions, interests, beliefs, and values embedded in the text, and the credibility and purpose of the author
• Identify and analyze speaker's, artist's, or author's tone, attitude, and bias
• Analyze how the text uses argument, images, placement, editing, and/or music for effect and impact
• Evaluate and critique the persuasive techniques including emotion and propaganda.

Evaluate critically information (i.e., whose voice is heard, whose is not) obtained from viewing a visual or multimedia text.

Explain and evaluate the effectiveness of persuasive strategies and techniques in a range of visual and multimedia texts.

Infer point of view and biases explicit in visual and multimedia texts.

Analyze, compare, and critique different visual and multimedia presentations of the same ideas, information, or issues.

Assess the accuracy and balance of information presented in visual and multimedia texts.