Core French, Grade 6

Unit 1: Oral Communication

Communicating orally in French in authentic situations with beginning independence: speaking in short multi-sentence turns with some spontaneity, listening actively, selecting useful information, building fluency and accuracy, and describing familiar topics with detail - with little teacher modeling.

• Speaking in short multi-sentence turns
• Listening actively for detail

• Selecting useful information independently
• Building oral fluency and spontaneity
• Speaking accurately with more structures
• Describing with detail and opinion

Unit 2: Reading, Listening & Viewing

Reading, listening to and viewing a range of French texts in authentic situations with growing independence: making meaning of longer narrative and expository texts, using strategies flexibly, reading aloud fluently and accurately, and viewing authentic Acadian-Nova-Scotian heritage texts.

• Making meaning and responding to texts
• Using reading strategies flexibly

• Reading aloud fluently and accurately
• Acadian heritage and history of Nova Scotia

Unit 3: Writing

Writing texts in French in authentic situations with beginning independence: producing short multi-paragraph personal texts with some spontaneity following a model, writing fluently with varied structures, and revising for accuracy across agreement and tense.

• Writing a longer personal text
• Writing fluently with varied structures
• Revising for accuracy across tenses