Core French, Grade 5

Unit 1: Oral Communication

Communicating orally in French in authentic situations: speaking in connected sentences with simple details and connectors, listening actively for meaning, selecting useful information, building fluency and accuracy, and describing familiar topics - with less teacher support than in Grade 4.

• Speaking in connected sentences
• Listening actively for meaning

• Selecting useful information
• Building oral fluency
• Speaking accurately
• Describing my world with detail

Unit 2: Reading, Listening & Viewing

Reading, listening to and viewing a range of French texts in authentic situations: making meaning of longer illustrated texts, using more reading strategies, reading familiar text aloud with growing fluency and accuracy, and viewing authentic Acadian-Nova-Scotian cultural texts.

• Making meaning from a longer text
• Using more reading strategies

• Reading aloud with expression
• Acadian celebrations in Nova Scotia

Unit 3: Writing

Writing texts in French in authentic situations: producing a longer personal text with a beginning/middle/end following a model, writing more fluently with varied sentences, and revising for accuracy including simple agreement.

• Writing a personal paragraph
• Writing more fluently with variety
• Revising for accuracy