Grade 2 French Immersion
6 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Français”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Understand different oral texts on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production. Speak on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Interaction. Participate in conversations on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonological Awareness. Recognize, hear and manipulate the syllables and sounds of the French language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonics. Establish connections between oral sounds (phonemes) and written sounds (graphemes) to read words in a text.
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use knowledge of vocabulary acquired to facilitate reading.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Read while understanding a variety of increasingly complex texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process. Write different types of simple texts about familiar topics by following the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Enrich one’s writing of different simple texts by applying the writing traits.
Units
Unit 1
Le, la, un, une
Choosing the right article (le, la, un, une) for a noun. In French every noun is masculine or feminine, so nouns are best learned with their article.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 2
Les adjectifs
Making an adjective agree in gender and number with the noun it describes.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 3
L'ordre des mots
Building simple French sentences: who or what, then the action, then the rest.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 4
Les contes
Features of fairy tales and folk tales, including well-known French tales, and why cultures share stories.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 5
D'abord, ensuite, enfin
Words that show time (d'abord, ensuite, enfin) and place (sur, sous, dans, près, loin), and putting events in order.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Être et avoir
The present tense of the two most important verbs in French, être (to be) and avoir (to have).
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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