Grade 2 - 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 support the understanding or expression of a message?

How can vocabulary and word study facilitate oral and written comprehension and expression?

How can phonological awareness support the development of reading and writing?

How can decoding support reading and writing words?

How are texts classified?

What can contribute to the understanding of French texts?

How can fluency support expressive reading?

How can the expression of ideas through text production highlight the value of learning?

How can elements of the sentence contribute to oral and written communication?

Students derive the overall meaning of messages on familiar topics in authentic oral communication situations.

Students express themselves orally in French on familiar topics by formulating basic sentences in authentic communication situations.

Students integrate new words into their vocabulary and learn spelling patterns to understand and express themselves.

Students modify words and sentences orally by manipulating phonemes, syllables, and words.

Students apply their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondences to decode, read, and write short texts.

Students associate features with fiction and non-fiction texts and explore their organization.

Students demonstrate an understanding of the overall meaning of messages in various short fiction and non-fiction texts.

Students read words and sentences accurately and learn to read short written texts expressively.

Students produce and share fiction and non-fiction texts to express their ideas using several sentences, while experimenting with the text production process.

Students demonstrate understanding of the essential elements of basic sentences and use them to understand and express themselves in context, referring to model sentences as necessary.