Grade 6 French Immersion
7 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Demonstrate understanding of different oral texts on a variety of topics using comprehension strategies.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Share information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions on a variety of topics using various types of presentations and/or exchanges.
- Speaking and Listening: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Describe how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews.
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use expanding vocabulary knowledge to support reading and comprehension of increasingly complex and diverse texts.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Use various strategies to read more complex and diverse texts with increased fluency and accuracy.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Critically engage with a variety of more complex and diverse texts using comprehension strategies.
- Reading and Viewing: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Identify how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews in written texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production. Write different types of texts about a variety of topics using the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Apply the writing traits to strengthen the quality of various writing pieces on different topics.
- Writing and Representing: Multilingual Identity and Cultural Appreciation. Identify as a multilingual writer.
Units
Unit 1
Imparfait ou passé composé?
Choosing between the imparfait (description, habits) and the passé composé (completed events), including verbs that take être.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 2
Racines et préfixes
Using word roots, prefixes and suffixes to work out the meaning of unfamiliar French words.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 3
Les légendes
Features of legends and the role of oral tradition, including that First Nations have many distinct stories and ways of telling them.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 4
Quand et où?
Spotting spatial and temporal clues in a text to picture the setting and follow the order of events.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 5
Le roman jeunesse
Features of a youth novel: main character, setting, plot, theme and chapters.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 6
Relier les idées
Linking words that show cause, consequence, opposition, addition and order.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 7
Résumer un texte
Reformulating the main idea of an informational text and telling it from supporting details.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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