English as a Second Language (Core), Grade 4
Quebec · Grade 4 · English as an Additional Language — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Contextual and Functional Language
Functional English for real classroom and social situations — the two-column phrase/function inventory (Cycle One Contextual + Cycles Two-Three Functional), pitched for francophone learners.
- Using English: Participates in classroom routines
- Using English: Asks for help
- Using English: Asks for clarification
- Using English: Identifies people, animals, objects, places
- Using English: Repertoire of words and short expressions Describes basic ch
- Using English: Inquires about basic characteristics of people, animals, obj
- Using English: States own capabilities
- Using English: Expresses agreement/disagreement
- Using English: Asks for permission
- Using English: Accepts or declines offers of assistance
- Using English: Expresses personal needs and wants
- Using English: Contributes in creating harmonious exchanges
- Using English: Uses expressions containing action words
- Using English: Uses vocabulary related to other familiar environments
- Using English: Uses personal pronouns and possessive forms in context to ta
- Using English: Uses the alphabet to spell words in context
- Using English: Uses cardinal and ordinal numbers frequently encountered in
- Using English: Uses the names of colours and shapes frequently encountered
- Discover: Uses question words in context
Unit 2: Strategies
Learner strategies — communication, learning, self-management and metacognitive moves that help a francophone learner keep going in English.
- Using English: Perseveres despite not understanding everything listened to
Unit 3: Language Conventions
Conventions in the service of comprehensible English — word order, plurals, articles, verb tenses, sound-symbol and punctuation, framed as learner supports (not native craft).
- Using English: Uses knowledge of word order in simple sentences to construc
- Using English: Forms simple sentences
- Using English: Uses knowledge of regular and common irregular plurals to co
- Using English: Writes an “s” at the end of nouns for regular plurals
- Using English: Writes a sentence with a capital letter at the beginning and
- Using English: Spells words as found in explicit models and resources targe
Unit 4: Text Components
Using the parts of a text to build meaning in English — connecting words, contextual cues, main ideas and events, at a controlled-vocabulary level.
- Using English: Identifies general ideas stated explicitly (i.e. literal mea
- Using English: Orally identifies characters, actions, objects and places
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