Grade 9 graduates
• Act in compliance with requests, instructions, clarifications and explanations that they have heard or read; accurately read aloud texts, news, advertisements, tales and short verses by observing the principles of reading; specify/write various forms of non-text information related to sentences and texts that they have heard and read; choose and specify the topics, main ideas and supporting details, and express opinions about what they have heard or read from various types of media, as well as provide justifications and examples for illustration