Grade 3 French Immersion: how to help at home
What your child learns in Grade 3 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, 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.
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
Je me, tu te, il se
Reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, nous, vous) with everyday routines like se laver and se coucher.
Et, mais, ou, avec
Joining ideas into longer sentences with coordinating conjunctions and simple prepositions.
Ne… pas
The negative form ne… pas, including n' before a vowel sound.
Le futur proche
Talking about what is about to happen with aller + a verb, and telling past from future.
Les pluriels en -x
Plural spellings: -eau/-eu/-ou nouns add an x, and -al nouns become -aux.
Préfixes et suffixes
Using prefixes and suffixes (re-, dé-, in-, -ette, -eur, -ier) to work out the meaning of new words.
L'idée principale
Reading a short text and telling the main idea apart from smaller details.
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 3 french immersion units include je me, tu te, il se, et, mais, ou, avec, ne… pas, le futur proche, les pluriels en -x, préfixes et suffixes.
Free printable Grade 3 french immersion practice sheet
Questions from every unit, with an answer key.