Demonstrate an awareness that communication can occur through visuals and print texts (including First Nations and Métis texts).

Use strategies to construct and confirm meaning when "reading":

• 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, listening, and "reading":

• 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).

Demonstrate an interest in and knowledge about books and reading.

Know where to look for the title and author/illustrator.

Choose to read or look at books, and demonstrate knowledge of print, reading-like behaviours, and book-handling skills.

Demonstrate an awareness that print is a permanent way of recording ideas.

Create play situations from basic understandings of story text.

Explain the main idea.

Relate personal experiences, and represent responses through drama, physical movement, music, drawings, and models.