Grade 1 French Immersion
7 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “En français”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Understand different oral texts on topics related to students' experiences.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production. Speak on topics closely related to students' experiences using precise language.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Interaction. Participate in small conversations related to topics closely related to students' experiences using precise language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonological Awareness. Recognize, hear, and manipulate the syllables and sounds of the French language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonics. Establish connections between spoken sounds (phonemes) and written sounds (graphemes) to read words in a text.
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use knowledge of the vocabulary acquired to facilitate your reading.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Read while understanding a variety of increasingly complex texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process. Write different types of simple texts about topics closely related to the students' experiences by following the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Enhance writing with short, simple texts by applying the writing traits.
Units
Unit 1
Je me présente
Speaking about oneself and one's daily life with simple sentence patterns: my name, age, likes and feelings.
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 2
Majuscule et point
Writing conventions: capital letters, spaces between words and end punctuation.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 3
Est-ce que…?
Forming questions with “est-ce que” and recognizing the question mark.
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 4
Les verbes d'action
Present-tense endings of common action verbs, matched to the person doing the action.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 5
Couleurs et adjectifs
Colours and simple adjectives to describe people, animals and things, including feminine forms.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Histoire ou texte?
Telling a story apart from an informational text, a key reading skill in Grade 1.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 7
Dans l'histoire
Elements of a story (characters, setting, events) and putting events in order to retell a story.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
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