About the course
Grade 3 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 3 - Spanish
Course length
10 Months
Course Price
CAD $ 625
Course Developer
Ravi Sharma
Course Code
Department
Instructor Name
Spanish 3
Primary
TBD
Curriculum Policy Document
Course Outline
Course outline:
Topics:
• Describing what you did yesterday
• Giving opinions
• Daily routine and weekend activities
• Leisure activities and sports
• Professions
• Transport
• Internet
Grammar:
• Present tense of regular and irregular verbs
• Verb creer to give opinions
• Reflexive pronouns
• Frequency adverbs
• Quantifiers: mucho, bastante, poco
• Question words: ¿cómo?
• Agreeing and disagreeing (también, tampoco, sÃ, no)
• Prepositions: de…a, desde…hasta, en, a, por
• Differences between saber and conocer (to know)
• Introduction to the past tense: preterito indefinido, regular and some irregular verbs (hacer,venir, ser, ir, estar)
• Ser + bueno/malo
Expectations:
1. Listening to Understand
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Listen 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 3 students will:
Hold conversations and role play
3. Reading
By the end of Grade 3 students will:
Read and understand simple to complex sentences in Spanish.
4. Writing:
By the end of Grade 3, students will:
Write simple to complex sentences in Spanish.
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.
