Grade 3 French Immersion
7 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, studied topics as well as personal experiences.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Give short presentations and participate in conversations about known topics, concepts studied and personal experiences using speech and interaction strategies.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonological Awareness. Recognizing, hearing and manipulating the sounds of the French language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonics. Establish the connections between spoken sounds (phonemes) and written sounds (graphemes) to read words in a text
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use one’s knowledge of the vocabulary acquired to facilitate your reading.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Read with comprehension a variety of increasingly complex texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process. Write different types of texts about familiar topics, topics studied as well as personal experiences by following the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Enrich your writing with different types of texts by applying writing traits.
Units
Unit 1
Je me, tu te, il se
Reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, nous, vous) with everyday routines like se laver and se coucher.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 2
Et, mais, ou, avec
Joining ideas into longer sentences with coordinating conjunctions and simple prepositions.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 3
Ne… pas
The negative form ne… pas, including n' before a vowel sound.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 4
Le futur proche
Talking about what is about to happen with aller + a verb, and telling past from future.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 5
Les pluriels en -x
Plural spellings: -eau/-eu/-ou nouns add an x, and -al nouns become -aux.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Préfixes et suffixes
Using prefixes and suffixes (re-, dé-, in-, -ette, -eur, -ier) to work out the meaning of new words.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 7
L'idée principale
Reading a short text and telling the main idea apart from smaller details.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
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