Grade 3 - 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.

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 and message comprehension influence self-development and interactions?

How can morphemes contribute to comprehension, word formation, and word choice, both orally and in writing?

How can decoding allow the reading and writing of words in a text?

How can texts vary in their characteristics and structures?

How can comprehension be supported by reading strategies?

How can expressive reading support reading fluency?

How can the stages of the writing process support the production of texts and highlight language learning progress?

How can sentence grammar support oral and written communication?

Students demonstrate active listening behaviours and determine important ideas in authentic oral communication situations, on various topics encountered in the learning environment.

Students interact with each other orally in French, on various topics encountered in the learning environment, in authentic spontaneous and prepared communication situations.

Students recognize phonics, morphemes, and spelling patterns to understand the meaning of new words and to express themselves.

Students apply grapheme-phoneme correspondences to read and write texts.

Students associate features and structures with fiction and non-fiction text types.

Students use reading strategies and demonstrate understanding of fiction and non-fiction texts.

Students read texts at their independent reading level with accuracy and experiment with elements of expressive reading.

Students use the writing process to express their ideas in the production and sharing of fiction and non-fiction texts, considering communication purpose and the target audience.

Students demonstrate an understanding of some elements of sentence grammar and apply them to derive meaning and form basic sentences in context.