Curriculum strands
TFSText Forms and Structures
Narratives, novels, journals, media texts; fantasy; subplots and flashbacks; free verse and concrete poems
OLOral Language
Oral traditions; phrasing, pausing and projection; active listening; presentations with visual aids
VVocabulary
Figurative language (personification, analogy, idiom); morphology
FFluency
Accuracy, automaticity and prosody (emphasis, pausing, intonation)
CComprehension
Predicting, inferring, summarizing and synthesizing; metacognition
WWriting
Writing process; paragraphs with topic and concluding sentences; note-taking; printing, keyboarding and cursive
CVConventions
Commas, quotation marks, apostrophes; nouns and pronouns; comparatives; spelling patterns and homophones