C3. Critical Thinking in Literacy
Specific Expectations
Literary Devices
C3.1
identify simple literary devices, including rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and describe how they help communicate meaning
Making Inferences
C3.2
make simple inferences, using stated and implied information and ideas, to understand simple texts
Analyzing Texts
C3.3
analyze simple texts, including literary and informational texts, by identifying and sequencing important information and events
Analyzing Cultural Elements of Texts
C3.4
identify some cultural elements represented in various texts, including symbols and values, and explain how these elements contribute to the meaning
Perspectives within Texts
C3.5
identify explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in a text, and describe how these perspectives could influence an audience
Analysis and Response
C3.6
express personal thoughts and feelings about ideas presented in texts, such as ideas about diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
Indigenous Contexts
C3.7
identify some ways in which texts created by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, groups, or nations communicate about historical periods, cultural experiences, and events, and how they relate to current lived experiences
Reflecting on Learning
C3.8
identify thinking skills that helped them understand simple texts
