Skill Descriptor: Understand different oral texts on topics related to students’ experiences.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Understand the meaning of a simple message
• Understand short conversations on known topics
• Understand simple words and common phrases
• Understand anchor charts and concrete objects
• Understand simple questions
• Understand people if they describe objects or possessions
• Understand simple guidelines, instructions, and tasks
• Use listening strategies to support understanding

Skill Descriptor: Speak on topics closely related to students’ experiences using precise language.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Introduce yourself and someone else
• Describe people, objects and simple actions/activities using simple phrases and known words
• Talk about familiar topics using simple phrases and familiar words
• Describe feelings and preferences (e.g., what I like and don’t like)
• Saying what you can and can’t do
• Use vocabulary and simple expressions related to learning themes
• Start integrating elements of language accuracy and syntax to improve speaking

Skill Descriptor: Participate in small conversations related to topics closely related to students’ experiences using precise language.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Exchange simple information on everyday topics
• Participate in simple discussions with peers by asking and answering personal questions
• Ask for simple instructions
• Interact with someone to fulfil a need
• Start integrating language accuracy elements and syntax elements to improve oral speech

Skill Descriptor: Recognize, hear, and manipulate the syllables and sounds of the French language.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify known words and the number of words heard in a sentence
• Segment a word into syllables
• Merge syllables to make a word
• Identify and produce words that rhyme
• Identify the different sounds in a word (e.g., initial, final, median, number of sounds in a word)
• Substitute, add, or remove a sound in a word to create a new word

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

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Understand alphabetic concepts (e.g., recognize, name, sound uppercase and lowercase letters)
• Recognize different graphemes in writing (e.g., vowels, consonants, frequent complex spellings, etc.)
• Use knowledge of different graphemes to read increasingly complex words (e.g., CV, VC, CVC, multi-syllable/sound words)
• Decode a word correctly using learned graphemes

Skill Descriptor: Use 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., frequent words, thematic words, words learned in other subjects, words heard in audio texts, etc.)
• Read known words in a text with ease (e.g., frequent words, thematic words, learned words)
• Use your knowledge of spoken words to easily read words in writing
• Understand the meaning of multiple words in a text

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

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Read small, simple texts fluently; slow down only if a need arises
• Read small, simple texts with expression
• Read small, simple texts more accurately, with few errors, few substitutions, and few omissions

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

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Make a short summary of the main ideas of a simple text
• Answer literal and inferential questions in simple text
• Make predictions before and during reading a text
• Make connections between previous knowledge and the text

Skill Descriptor: Write different types of simple texts about topics closely related to the students’ experiences by following the writing process.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Write simple information about yourself, your activities, routines, etc.
• Write simple descriptions on familiar topics
• Write small personal accounts describing events in everyday life
• Write small, simple notes and messages to other people
• Express ideas, feelings, and opinions
• Follow the writing process to improve the quality of text

Skill Descriptor: Enhance writing with short, simple texts by applying the writing traits.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Present ideas related to a familiar topic
• Organize ideas in a logical order
• Write simple and complete sentences
• Integrate learned vocabulary into text (e.g., words studied in class, thematic words, words heard orally, words seen in texts)
• Add descriptive words to text (e.g., simple adjectives, some adverbs)
• Apply basic learned language conventions

Skill Descriptor: Understand different oral texts on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Understand simple information on topics related to experiences, knowledge, and learning
• Understand questions on familiar and studied topics
• Understand simple and clear messages
• Understand brief descriptions and simple explanations related to familiar and studied topics
• Understand simple guidelines, instructions, and tasks
• Understand simple everyday conversations
• Understand the gist of short stories on a familiar topic
• Use listening strategies to support understanding

Skill Descriptor: Speak on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Share personal information and experiences
• Describe everyday events
• Produce short descriptions on familiar and studied topics
• Produce short explanations to describe how to do something
• Share preferences from a known topic.
• Explain a concept learned in class
• Use precise vocabulary and simple expressions related to the themes studied
• Consider the elements of language accuracy and syntax to improve oral speech

Skill Descriptor: Participate in conversations on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Interact with others to share ideas, experiences, preferences and feelings on familiar topics.
• Exchange information with others on familiar and studied topics
• Use interaction strategies to maintain a conversation (e.g., ask and answer questions, add more information, ask the person to repeat, etc.).
• Ask for or give directions (e.g., with a map of the school/neighborhood or other visual aids).
• Use precise vocabulary and simple expressions related to the topics studied
• Take into account elements of language accuracy and syntax to improve interactions

Skill Descriptor: Recognize, hear and manipulate the syllables and sounds of the French language.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Segment a wider variety of words into syllables
• Merge a wider variety of words into syllables to create a word
• Identify and produce words that rhyme
• Identify the different sounds in a word (e.g., initial, final, median, number of sounds in a word)
• Substitute, add, or remove a sound in a word to create a new word

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

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize different graphemes in writing (e.g., vowels, consonants, complex spellings, etc.)
• Use knowledge of different graphemes to read increasingly complex words (multi-syllable words/sounds)
• Decode a word correctly using learned graphemes

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

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize in a text several words studied in class (e.g., frequent words, thematic words, words learned in other subjects, words heard in audio texts, etc.)
• Read known words in a text with ease (e.g., frequent words, thematic words, learned words)
• Use knowledge of spoken words 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.) to understand the meaning of a word

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

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Read simple texts fluently; slow down only if a need arises
• Read simple texts with expression
• Read simple texts more accurately, with few errors, few substitutions, and few omissions

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

Global Competencies: SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Recount a simple narrative text by identifying the sequence of events
• Recount a simple informative text by identifying important information
• Summarize a text in a logical order
• Add details in the text reminder (e.g., secondary characters are…)
• Answer literal and inferential questions
• Make connections with experiences/understandings
• Use strategies to manage understanding

Skill Descriptor: Write different types of simple texts about familiar topics by following the writing process.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Write short stories/accounts related to personal experiences
• Write short informative texts about familiar or learned topics
• Express ideas, feelings, knowledge, needs and preferences/opinions
• Write the steps to complete a task (procedure to follow)
• Follow the writing process to improve the quality of texts

Skill Descriptor: Enrich one’s writing of different simple texts by applying the 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 demonstrates organization is beginning to appear in (e.g., logical order, transition words, introductory sentence, concluding sentence)
• Integrate vocabulary learned into text (e.g., thematic words, adjectives, adverbs, more specific verbs)
• Use a variety of sentences in text (e.g., various sentence beginnings, different lengths, and sentence types – exclamative, interrogative and negative)