Grade 5 - Experiencing Creative Works

This organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

respond to creative works from the Francophone world

SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

In the first years of language study, students' exposure to songs, rhymes, and picture books provides a source of original French which is simple and repetitive, yet rewarding and stimulating. Student responses typically involve very little language-students may be asked to draw, mime, move to music, or sing the chorus of songs.

Students may enjoy songs selected for their easy lyrics, catchy melodies, and appealing rhythms. When words are provided, students can sing along with the song or its chorus. Using rhythm instruments or movement makes this activity more fun and integrates music and physical education.
Have students create banners representing their interpretation of the title of a French song, story, video, or poem. Some students might like to use a computer program to create their banners.
Ask students to work in groups to illustrate a poem, nursery rhyme, song, or story the class has learned. Using large paper, each student copies and illustrates a different line of the work. The pages may be compiled in a class anthology and added to the class resource collection.
Students could view a segment of a television program for children and make paper bag puppets of the characters. These may be used later in vignettes created by the class.
Use illustrations and key words from simple illustrated storybooks for pre-reading and prediction activities. As the teacher (monitor, French-speaking student, or guest) reads various picture books, students listen while following the illustrations and simple text. Once familiar with a story, students create posters promoting the book using visual information and some key French words.
Have students listen to a recorded French song. Students identify as much vocabulary as possible and brainstorm in order to determine meaning. Replay the song once meaning is determined.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

Student assessment at this level focusses on participation and response. As students become familiar with a particular work and with that genre of creative works, they respond with increased confidence and pleasure. Response activities at this level involve representations with minimal linguistic demands. Criteria for assessment emphasize participation, engagement, and risk-taking with the language, culture, and creative processes.

When students participate in class or group singing activities, look for evidence that they are:
- attempting to convey meaning by intonation
- willing to sing in French
- incorporating appropriate mime
When students create banners or posters based on creative works they have experienced, note that they are:
- offering personal views or responses
- incorporating some French words
- interested in sharing their work with others
When groups of students illustrate a creative work, note the extent of their:
- group communication skills
- engagement in the task
- interest in and enthusiasm for the original work
- interest in their classmates' illustrations
- ability to capture the meaning of the original work

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

Multimedia

Acti-Vie 1
Savoir faire: Visages 1

Music CD

Créer un monde de paix
Loup du Nord

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