Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Fluency in a language facilitates our interactions with others.
Awareness of other cultures helps us discover our own culture and build our own identity.
The task and its context determine the strategies of comprehension and expression that are chosen.
Fairy and folk tales share common characteristics that define the genre.
Organizing and connecting our ideas in a logical fashion helps others better understand our message.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
communication strategies:
- active listeningthe recipient is physically and intellectually engaged, and reacts to what is heard
- active readingreading with expression, taking into account text elements such as italics, bolded text, intonation, etc.
- turn-taking in a conversationwaiting one’s turn to speak, raising one’s hand, etc.
- non-verbal languagegestures, eye contact, etc.
cultural elements
elements of a story:
- charactershero, villain, etc.
- settings
- eventsadverse and fortuitous events
text organization:
- structure of narrative textsbeginning, events and resolution
- structure of informational textstitle, sub-titles, paragraphs, images, etc.
- markers of timeaujourd’hui, demain, hier, au début, à la fin, etc.and placedans, où, là, sous, sur, etc.
writing conventions:
- punctuationquestion mark
- spelling conventionsplural nouns that end in the letter “s”, complex sounds, etc.
language elements:
- the gender of nounsmasculine, feminine, common and proper nouns, etc.
- articles
- adjectivespossessive (mon, ma, etc.) and qualifying
- structure of simple sentencesaffirmative, negative and interrogative forms (subject, verb, complement)
- verb moods and tensessingular forms of the present indicative for action verbs and auxiliary verbs in the present indicativeassociated with the genres being studied
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and Reflecting
Identify, in Francophone and Aboriginal texts
oral, written, visual
, elements that are present in one’s own culture
Deconstruct a sentence into word groups to enhance comprehension
Identify the key words and themes in a text
oral, written, visual
in order to understand the message
Visualize information when reading in order to facilitate comprehension
Organize information thematically
classify information according to theme using a Venn diagram, chart, etc.
Identify the elements of a story in order to associate it with the genres under study
Tell a story by organizing a series of events in chronological order
Creating and Communicating
Express ideas, emotions and personal experiences using visual and gestural elements
Interact spontaneously with peers using complete sentences
Read a simple text
oral, written, visual
with fluency
Ask questions in order to enhance understanding and deepen knowledge
Write short texts
oral, written, visual
that follow the rules of sentence structure and connect ideas in a logical fashion