elementary Block:

French Immersion Language Arts

Learners develop skills and competencies in speaking, reading, and writing. They benefit from authentic and engaging opportunities for personalized learning in an inclusive environment. Learners develop a wide variety of communication strategies and use a variety of tools to foster the growth of their language skills. They confidently express themselves on familiar topics and participate in conversations on topics that interest them. They make choices based on their interests and react critically to what they read by making connections to their previous knowledge. Learners engage in modeled writing tasks and work to create their own texts. They develop the ability to share and justify their opinions and feelings in their writing.

Companion Documents for Educators

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

LITERACY EXPERIMENTATION: NURTURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND LANGUAGE AND IDENTIFYING AS A READER AND WRITER.

LEARN AND USE A SECOND OR ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

  • Intentionally communicating
  • Reflecting and interacting in French with the world around us
  • Embracing the concept of bilingualism or plurilingualism
  • Sharing information and ideas on familiar topics, personal interests, and concepts explored in other fields
  • Maintaining conversations about concepts learned in class and those that spark personal interest

IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A READER

  • Interacting with various types and genres of text
  • Reading and exploring French expressions and stories

IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A WRITER

  • Developing skills from an emerging writer
  • Integrating vocabulary learned through a variety of subjects in written productions
GRADE 3

Strand: Speaking and Listening

Big Idea: Oral Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Understand different oral texts on familiar topics, studied topics as well as personal experiences.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Understand information on known and studied topics
  • Understand messages, frequently used phrases and announcements related to everyday life
  • Understand simple descriptions and explanations related to familiar and studied topics
  • Understand simple instructions, instructions, and tasks
  • Understand everyday conversations
  • Understand short stories about familiar topics/personal experiences
  • Use listening strategies to support understanding

Big Idea: Oral Production and Interaction

Skill Descriptor: Give short presentations and participate in conversations about known topics, concepts studied and personal experiences using speech and interaction strategies.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Share information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions about familiar topics and studied subjects.
  • Tell an event/story by adding details.
  • Explain a familiar or studied concept.
  • Begin to sustain interactions with others using interaction strategies.
  • Take into account language accuracy and syntax elements to improve speech and interactions.

Strand: Reading and Viewing

Big Idea: Phonological Awareness

Skill Descriptor: Recognizing, hearing and manipulating the sounds of the French language.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Merge sounds to produce words of different levels of complexity (e.g., number of sounds, lesser-known sounds)
  • Segment sounds to produce words of varying levels of complexity (e.g., number of sounds, lesser-known sounds)
  • Identify the initial, mid-sound, and final sound in a wider variety of words
  • Substitute, add, or remove a sound in a word to create a new word

Big Idea: Phonics

Skill Descriptor: Establish the connections between spoken sounds (phonemes) and written sounds (graphemes) to read words in a text

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Recognize different graphemes in a word (e.g., vowels, consonants, complex spellings, etc.)
  • Use knowledge of different graphemes and decoding strategies to read increasingly complex words (multi-syllable/sound words) in a text
  • Decode a word correctly using your knowledge of graphemes

Big Idea: Vocabulary

Skill Descriptor: Use one’s knowledge of the vocabulary acquired to facilitate your reading.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Recognize in a text several words studied in class (e.g., thematic words, words learned in other subjects, words heard in audio texts, etc.)
  • Read known words in a text with ease (e.g., thematic words, learned words, frequent words, etc.)
  • Use knowledge of spoken words and reading strategies to read words more easily in writing
  • Understand the meaning of several types of words in a text
  • Start using morphological cues (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, small words in the big word, etc.)

Big Idea: Fluency and Accuracy

Skill Descriptor: Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Read narrative and informative texts without too many omissions, repetitions, or substitutions
  • Read narrative texts with a little more fluidity and expression
  • Maintain smooth reading by slowing down only if a need arises
  • Use self-correction strategies as needed

Big Idea: Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Read with comprehension a variety of increasingly complex texts.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Make a reminder of a narrative text in chronological order by adding details like characters, location, problems, and solutions, etc.
  • Make a summary of an informative text by identifying important information
  • Answer literal questions, inferences, and reactions
  • Make connections with your experience/knowledge
  • Use strategies to manage understanding

Strand: Writing and Representing

Big Idea: Written Production and the Writing Process

Skill Descriptor: Write different types of texts about familiar topics, topics studied as well as personal experiences by following the writing process.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write stories/accounts related to personal experiences by describing events, places, characters
  • Write informative texts about a known topic (e.g., a superhero, a sport, their neighborhood) or a concept learned
  • Write procedural text (e.g., materials, steps, tips, and instructions)
  • Write a short, simple incentive text that encourages the reader to do something (e.g., read a book, visit a place, buy a product)
  • Write for different intentions: express ideas, feelings, knowledge, needs and preferences/opinions, to entertain the audience (e.g., nursery rhymes, poems, songs, riddles)
  • Follow the writing process to improve the quality of your texts

Big Idea: Writing Traits

Skill Descriptor: Enrich your writing with different types of texts by applying writing traits.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write a text with ideas that are related to a situation or theme (e.g., main idea, relevant details)
  • Write a text that an organization is beginning to appear (e.g., logical order, short introduction and conclusion, small paragraphs, transition words)
  • Integrate the vocabulary learned into their text (e.g., thematic words, adjectives, adverbs, more specific verbs); start varying your choice of words
  • Use a variety of sentences in text (e.g., various sentence beginnings, different lengths, and sentence types – exclamative, interrogative and negative)
  • Apply basic language conventions learned
GRADE 4

Strand: Speaking and Listening

Big Idea: Oral Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Understand different oral texts on a variety of familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Understand everyday conversations between two or more people
  • Understand narrative oral texts with sequences of events, problem-solutions, triggering events, etc.
  • Understand informative oral texts on known, studied or interesting topics
  • Understand guidelines and instructions
  • React to demonstrate understanding
  • Use listening strategies to support understanding

Big Idea: Oral Production and Interaction

Skill Descriptor: Communicate about familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests using specific language.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Share information, knowledge, ideas and opinions about familiar topics, topics studied and personal interests
  • Tell an event/story in chronological order by adding relevant details
  • Explain a familiar or studied concept
  • Maintain interactions with other people using interaction strategies
  • Consider the elements of precision of the language and the elements of syntax to improve its speech and interactions

Strand: Reading and Viewing

Big Idea: Phonics

Skill Descriptor: Use knowledge of written sounds (graphemes) to read words in text accurately.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Use knowledge of different graphemes and decoding strategies to read increasingly complex words in a text
  • Decode a word correctly using knowledge of graphemes and simple spelling rules

Big Idea: Vocabulary

Skill Descriptor: Use knowledge of the vocabulary acquired to facilitate your reading.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Recognize most words in a text and read known words with ease (e.g., thematic words, learned words, etc.)
  • Understand more and more descriptive, incentive, and pictorial words in a text
  • Use knowledge of spoken words to understand their meaning in a text
  • Use simple morphological, lexical, and semantic cues (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, small words in the big word, friendly words, etc.) to understand the meaning of words

Big Idea: Fluency and Accuracy

Skill Descriptor: Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Read a variety of texts without too many omissions, repetitions, or substitutions
  • Maintain fluency reading when reading a variety of texts by slowing down only if a need arises
  • Add expression and intonation at appropriate times (e.g., dialogue, exclamative phrases, phrases to demonstrate feelings)
  • Use a variety of strategies to manage, adjust and/or correct reading, as needed

Big Idea: Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Read while understanding a variety of increasingly complex texts.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Make a reminder of a narrative text by identifying the series of events, the main/secondary characters, the triggering event, the conclusion, etc.
  • Summarize informative, incentive, and procedural texts by identifying important ideas/information
  • Demonstrate literal and inferential understanding of different types of text
  • Demonstrate a critical mind towards a text by expressing and justifying feelings/opinions/reactions to the text
  • Use a variety of strategies to manage your understanding

Skill Descriptor: Use strategies to support comprehension of a variety of texts at appropriate levels for different intentions.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

Read with different intentions

  • Make appropriate text choices according to reading intention
  • Discuss the importance of different types of text
  • Recognize that the goal of reading is comprehension
  • React to a text (feel emotions, give an opinion on the text, act, laugh, ask a question, etc.)
  • Identify cultural elements and references in a text
  • Demonstrate understanding of the purpose of dialogue between different characters
  • Demonstrate understanding of the problem, situation and solution in a text

Critical thinking strategies

  • Determine the author’s intention (to inform, entertain, convince, motivate, etc.)
  • Identify target audience (youth, teenagers, community members, etc.)
  • Express agreement or disagreement with an aspect of the text (author’s point of view, character’s action, etc.).
  • Give reasons to support an opinion
  • Express and justify feelings about different aspects of the text
  • Make comparisons (reactions of two characters, points of view of two authors, etc.)

Support reading comprehension at an appropriate level

  • Explain comprehension strategies used when reading a text
  • Use a variety of comprehension strategies to overcome difficulties
  • Determine the most effective comprehension strategy to use according to the difficulty to be overcome

Demonstrate comprehension

  • Recount a text in chronological order
  • Recount a series of events in a text
  • Add details when summarizing a text (secondary characters, etc.)
  • Recount and discuss important ideas and information in a text
  • Answer concrete questions about a text
  • Answer inferential questions about an image or text

Strand: Writing and Representing

Big Idea: Written Production and the Writing Process

Skill Descriptor: Write different types of texts about familiar/familiar topics, topics studied and personal interests following the writing process.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write different types of texts (narrative, informative, procedural, incentive, and creative) about a familiar/familiar topic, personal interest, concepts learned and lived experiences respecting their textual structure
  • Express ideas, feelings, knowledge, needs and preferences, opinions, to inform or entertain audience
  • Follow the writing process to improve the quality of your texts

Skill Descriptor: Use strategies to support comprehension of a variety of texts at appropriate levels for different intentions.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

Read with different intentions

  • Make appropriate text choices according to reading intention
  • Discuss the importance of different types of text
  • Recognize that the goal of reading is comprehension
  • React to a text (feel emotions, give an opinion on the text, act, laugh, ask a question, etc.)
  • Identify cultural elements and references in a text
  • Demonstrate understanding of the purpose of dialogue between different characters
  • Demonstrate understanding of the problem, situation and solution in a text

Critical thinking strategies

  • Determine the author’s intention (to inform, entertain, convince, motivate, etc.)
  • Identify target audience (youth, teenagers, community members, etc.)
  • Express agreement or disagreement with an aspect of the text (author’s point of view, character’s action, etc.).
  • Give reasons to support an opinion
  • Express and justify feelings about different aspects of the text
  • Make comparisons (reactions of two characters, points of view of two authors, etc.)

Support reading comprehension at an appropriate level

  • Explain comprehension strategies used when reading a text
  • Use a variety of comprehension strategies to overcome difficulties
  • Determine the most effective comprehension strategy to use according to the difficulty to be overcome

Demonstrate comprehension

  • Recount a text in chronological order
  • Recount a series of events in a text
  • Add details when summarizing a text (secondary characters, etc.)
  • Recount and discuss important ideas and information in a text
  • Answer concrete questions about a text
  • Answer inferential questions about an image or text

Big Idea: Writing Traits

Skill Descriptor: Enrich your writing with different types of texts by applying writing traits.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write a text that contains clear main ideas and relevant details
  • Write a text whose organization is obvious, and which respects the type of text
  • Use a choice of more complex words learned in class (e.g., thematic words, adjectives, adverbs, more specific verbs, simple synonyms)
  • Build longer and more complex sentences by adding complements/relationship words and varying sentence types
  • Apply learned language conventions; Write several known words correctly and consider some simple grammatical rules
GRADE 5

Strand: Speaking and Listening

Big Idea: Oral Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Understand different oral texts on a variety of familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Understand conversations on everyday topics, current events, and more academic topics between two or more people
  • Understand a variety of narrative oral texts with a triggering event, outcomes, and adventures
  • Understand informative oral texts on a variety of known, studied, or interested topics
  • Understand and follow instructions, guidelines, and explanations
  • React to demonstrate understanding
  • Use listening strategies to support understanding

Big Idea: Oral Production and Interaction

Skill Descriptor: Communicate about familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests using specific language

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Share information, knowledge, and ideas about familiar topics, studied topics and personal interests
  • Give and justify an opinion by offering a few reasons
  • Tell a story in chronological order by adding relevant details
  • Summarize events from your experience, current events or the past
  • Explain a familiar or studied concept
  • Maintain social and academic interactions with other people using interaction strategies
  • Consider the elements of precision of the language and the elements of syntax to improve its speech and interactions

Strand: Reading and Viewing

Big Idea: Vocabulary

Skill Descriptor: Use vocabulary knowledge to support reading of various types of more complex texts.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Recognize most words in various types of texts and read known words with ease
  • Understand in a text more and more descriptive, incentive, pictorial and specialized words (e.g., scientific concepts, social sciences, and humanities themes)
  • Use knowledge of spoken words to understand their meaning in a text
  • Use simple morphological, lexical, and semantic cues (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, small words in the big word, friendly words, etc.) to understand the meaning of words

Big Idea: Fluency and Accuracy

Skill Descriptor: Read a variety of texts fluently and accurately using various strategies.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

Decoding

  • Make connections between oral and written sounds
  • Recognize more complex spellings at the beginning, middle and end of words
  • Read a text without having to decode several words
  • Use certain decoding strategies during a challenge

Fluidity

  • Use certain fluidity strategies as needed

Big Idea: Comprehension

Skill Descriptor: Develop an in-depth understanding of various types of more complex texts while developing critical thinking.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Use a variety of strategies to manage your understanding
  • Make a reminder of a narrative text by identifying the series of events, the main/secondary characters, the triggering event, the conclusion, etc.
  • Summarize informative, incentive, and procedural texts, identifying important ideas/information and relevant details
  • Demonstrate literal and inferential understanding of different types of text
  • Critically analyze a text by expressing and justifying feelings, opinions, reactions, and interpretations

Strand: Writing and Representing

Big Idea: Written Production and the Writing Process

Skill Descriptor: Write different types of texts about familiar/familiar topics, topics studied and personal interests following the writing process.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write fiction and non-fiction texts about lived experiences and/or from the imaginary world respecting their textual structure
  • Write informative, procedural, incentive, and creative texts about familiar/known/studied topics and personal interests within their textual structure
  • Express ideas, feelings, knowledge, needs and preferences, opinions, to inform or entertain audience
  • Follow the writing process to improve the quality of your texts

Big Idea: Writing Traits

Skill Descriptor: Enrich your writing with different types of texts by applying writing traits.

Global Competencies: CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Write a text that contains clear main ideas, secondary ideas, and relevant details
  • Start adding less familiar/more creative ideas
  • Write a text whose organization is obvious, and which respects the type of text
  • Link the different parts of the text using slightly more complex transition words
  • Use a choice of more complex words learned in class (e.g., thematic words, adjectives, adverbs, more specific verbs, simple synonyms, simple idioms, comparisons)
  • Build longer and more complex sentences by adding complements/relationship words/conjunctions and varying sentence types
  • Apply learned language conventions; write several known words correctly and consider simple grammatical rules