Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:
Students are expected to be able to do the following, using oral, written and visual formats:

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:
cultural elements
elements of a story:
text organization:
writing conventions:
language elements:
  • the gender of nouns
    masculine, feminine, common and proper nouns, etc.
  • articles
  • adjectives
    possessive (mon, ma, etc.) and qualifying
  • structure of simple sentences
    affirmative, negative and interrogative forms (subject, verb, complement)
  • verb moods and tenses
    singular forms of the present indicative for action verbs and auxiliary verbs in the present indicative
    associated 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