Grade 2 French Immersion: how to help at home
What your child learns in Grade 2 french immersion in the New Brunswick Curriculum, and simple things to try at home.
The Big Ideas this year
- 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.
Easy ways to practise french immersion at home
- Read a short French book or comic together a few times a week, and talk about it in either language.
- Ask your child to teach you one new French word or grammar rule a day.
- Watch a French show with the French subtitles on, then retell the story.
- Keep a short French journal: one or two sentences a day.
What each unit covers
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.
Les adjectifs
Making an adjective agree in gender and number with the noun it describes.
L'ordre des mots
Building simple French sentences: who or what, then the action, then the rest.
Les contes
Features of fairy tales and folk tales, including well-known French tales, and why cultures share stories.
D'abord, ensuite, enfin
Words that show time (d'abord, ensuite, enfin) and place (sur, sous, dans, près, loin), and putting events in order.
Être et avoir
The present tense of the two most important verbs in French, être (to be) and avoir (to have).
What the report card levels look like at home
- Working below
- Just getting started with this idea. Short, regular practice with lots of support helps most.
- Approaching
- Understands parts of it and is building confidence. Keep practising the tricky parts.
- Meeting
- Has it! Mixed review now and then keeps it strong.
- Excelling
- Applies it confidently, even in new or harder situations. Try challenge mode and real-life problems.
Your child’s teacher decides the level on the report card. Read the New Brunswick report card guide.
Common questions
Read a short French book or comic together a few times a week, and talk about it in either language. Ask your child to teach you one new French word or grammar rule a day. Keep sessions short, about 10 to 15 minutes, and stop on a success.
The New Brunswick Curriculum Grade 2 french immersion units include le, la, un, une, les adjectifs, l'ordre des mots, les contes, d'abord, ensuite, enfin, être et avoir.
Free printable Grade 2 french immersion practice sheet
Questions from every unit, with an answer key.