Grade 4 - 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 understanding of the message foster collaboration and self-development?

How can the study of word formation contribute to vocabulary acquisition and facilitate oral and written comprehension and expression?

How can decoding provide access to various texts?

How can the characteristics and structures of fiction and non-fiction texts be used to identify the type of texts?

How can comprehension influence one’s reaction to a text and contribute to self-development?

How can reading fluency contribute to reading comprehension?

How can the use of the writing process support text production, self-expression, and a sense of personal pride?

How can sentence grammar provide details that support oral and written communication?

Students demonstrate active listening behaviours to understand messages on familiar topics in various authentic oral communication situations.

Students express themselves orally in French on familiar topics, spontaneously and in a prepared manner, according to various purposes and authentic communication situations.

Students use knowledge of words, morphemes, phonics, and spelling patterns to support vocabulary development and word choice.

Students use grapheme-phoneme correspondences with automaticity to understand and write texts.

Students recognize types of fiction and non-fiction texts based on features, structures, and communication purposes.

Students apply reading strategies according to the text and demonstrate comprehension of various fiction and non-fiction texts.

Students read texts at their independent reading level with fluency, incorporating elements of expressive reading.

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

Students use some elements of sentence grammar to understand and produce sentences, with and without complements, in context.