About the course
Grade 1 students will have access to oral and print texts with familiar topics and structures. Oral texts such as songs, poems, teacher read-alouds, large- and small-group discussions, and one-on-one conversations; print texts such as environmental print, simple fiction and non-fiction, and picture books, to motivate and engage diverse groups of students.
Grade 1 - Spanish
Course length
10 Months
Course Price
CAD $ 625
Course Developer
Ravi Sharma
Course Code
Department
Instructor Name
Spanish 1
Primary
TBD
Curriculum Policy Document
Course Outline
Course Outline:
Topics:
• Greetings and introductions
• The alphabet
• Numbers 0-100
• Personal information: name, address, telephone number, email address, age, marital status
• The family
• Formal and informal ways of addressing people
• Describing people
• Countries and nationalities
• Professions.
• Colours
• A wide range of topics based around students’ own interests.
Grammar:
• Number and gender
• Articles: definite and indefinite
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Personal pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Noun-adjective agreement
• Present tense of basic verbs like ser, estar, trabajar, vivir, tener, llevar
• Quantifiers: muy, bastante
Expectations:
1. Listening to Understand
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
Do lots of Listening in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
2. Speaking to Communicate
By the end of Grade 1 students will:
Use speaking skills to communicate in simple sentences.
3. Reading
By the end of Grade 1 students will:
Read and recognize Spanish alphabets.
4. Writing:
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
Write Spanish alphabets.
Final Reporting
Assessment is the process of gathering information from a variety of sources, such as assignments, day-to-day observations, conversations or conferences, demonstrations, projects, and performances. As part of assessment, teachers provide students with descriptive feedback that guides their efforts towards improvement. The final grade reflects the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration is given to more recent evidence of achievement. There is no final assessment, such as an exam, in this course.
Final reporting
Assessment is the process of gathering information from a variety of sources, such as assignments, day-to-day observations, conversations or conferences, demonstrations, projects, and performances. Teachers follow guidelines from Growing Success to analyze how well a student is achieving the curriculum expectations in a subject. As part of assessment, teachers provide students with descriptive feedback that guides their efforts towards improvement. The final grade reflects the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration is given to more recent evidence of achievement. There may be a final assessment, such as an exam, in this course.
