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

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.

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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