Grade 1 - French Immersion Language Arts & Literature

French Immersion Language Arts and Literature

Oral Communication: Oral comprehension and expression promote language development, positive relationships, and collaboration

Vocabulary: Understanding the meaning and formation of words facilitates oral communication, reading, and writing.

Phonological awareness: The ability to discern and manipulate the sounds of oral language supports vocabulary, reading, and writing.

Phonics: Understanding the relationships between phonemes and letters fosters the development of oral language, reading, and writing.

Text Organization: Different text genres are used to understand and express ideas, information, and perspectives about the world.

Text Comprehension: Understanding of ideas, perspectives, and cultures in texts is supported through the application of reading strategies and processes.

Reading Fluency: Reading fluency development promotes oral and written comprehension and expression.

Text Production: Text production and creativity allow for the sharing of ideas and information in various contexts.

Grammar: The understanding and application of grammar promotes effective communication of ideas when speaking and writing.

How can oral communication be used to understand and share a message?

How can words support oral and written comprehension and expression?

How can sounds support the formation of words in speech?

How can knowledge about writing and speaking support learning to read and write?

How can we recognize texts?

How can messages conveyed in French texts be understood?

How can letter and word recognition support the development of reading fluency?

How can authorship and ideas be celebrated through text production?

How can sentences support oral and written communication?

Students listen to and understand the overall meaning of short messages on very familiar topics in authentic oral communication situations.

Students experiment with oral expression in French on very familiar topics in authentic communication situations.

Students use new words and make connections between oral and written language to understand and express themselves.

Students manipulate words in sentences, as well as manipulate phonemes and syllables in spoken words.

Students explore letter-sound (grapheme-phoneme) correspondences in decoding and writing practice.

Students notice features of various texts.

Students use clues to make sense of messages in short texts on familiar topics.

Students recognize letters and words with accuracy in short written texts.

Students produce and share texts that represent their ideas in a few sentences, referring to model sentences.

Students develop an understanding of and produce sentences in oral and written communication, referring to model sentences.