French Language Arts 8

Saskatchewan Curriculum - Grade 8 Core French


Communication Skills (CS)

• 8.CS.1 Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and details in oral French multi-sentence presentations on a variety of familiar topics in guided situations.
• 8.CS.2 Discuss a variety of information on familiar topics through oral expression in guided situations.
• 8.CS.3 Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and many supporting details in a variety of 130-140 word multi-paragraph expository, procedural, persuasive, and narrative texts.
• 8.CS.4 Produce 80-100 word expository, narrative, or procedural multi-paragraph French texts or scripts composed of a combination of models and original student-generated text.

Language Knowledge (LK)

• 8.LK.1 Demonstrate acquisition of French language concepts related to themes, including:
• numbers to 100 000 
• fractional numbers
• present tense regular -re verbs, singular and plural forms
  
• present tense irregular -re verbs, singular and plural forms
• reflexive verbs, singular and plural forms, present tense
• passé composé of -er verbs with avoir
• adverbs with -ment suffix
• questions types: intonation, inversion, interrogative pronouns
• transportation prepositions
• demonstrative adjectives

Cultural Knowledge (C)

• 8.C.1 Compare contributions of current and past French, French Canadian, First Nations and Métis individuals and organizations to Canadian society.

General Language Strategies (GL)

• 8.GL.1 Select listening or viewing strategies in structured situations, such as:
• asking and answering questions
• making predictions
• verifying comprehension
• making connections
• visualizing
• summarizing
• synthesizing
• analyzing and evaluating
• 8.GL.2 Select speaking strategies in structures situations, such as:
• Model language
• sharing
• guided practice
• independent practice
• 8.GL.3 Select reading strategies in structures situations.(see 8.GL.1 for strategies)
• 8.GL.4 Implement stages of the writing process in semi-guided situations, including idea generation, drafting, revising, editing, publishing.

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