WORLD LANGUAGE ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS
ELEMENTARY FRENCH AND SPANISH 1ST – 5TH
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
 Why learn other languages?
 Why learn about other cultures?
VOCABULARY INTRODUCED
 Greetings/Names
 Numbers
 Colors
 Shapes
 Alphabet
 Feelings
 Date/Calendar/Days of week/Months
 Seasons/weather
 Cognates
 High frequency action words
 Body Parts
 Foods and accessories
 Family members
 Clothing
 Animals
 Sports
 House/class objects
 Expression likes/dislikes
 Interrogatives
CULTURE
 Holidays
 Geography – Identify some Spanish and French speaking countries
 Foods
GRADE/LANGUAGE SPECIFIC
*All grades reinforce what was learned in the previous year and introduce what is
listed at the grade level
*TL=Target language
GRADE
1st
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Class routines and procedures in TL
Alphabet
Food
Greetings/Saying names
Stating feelings: good, bad, tired, happy, fantastic
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Numbers 0-12, ordinal 1st-5th
Animals
Alphabet
Days of the week
Colors
Body parts (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, head, hand, arm, shoulder,
leg, feet, foot, finger, hair, neck, stomach, back, knee)
Prepositions – inside, outside, here
Listening small stories about the topics introduced
Reading aloud in the TL
Recognizing small words in French
Action verbs – stand up, sit down, walks, runs, jumps, swim,
hides
Family members
Making cards for special Holidays in TL
French-speaking Culture: French gastronomy, geography of French
speaking countries
2nd
Spanish-speaking Culture: Day of the Dead - Paper flowers, geography
of Spanish speaking countries
Skills reinforced from 1st grade and new topics introduced:
 Class routines and procedures in TL
 Greetings/Saying names
 Months/saying the date and year
 Numbers 0-20, ordinal 1st-5th
 Listening small stories about the topics introduced
 Animal characteristics, cycles and habitats in TL
 Read simple words and stories in TL
 Write small sentences in TL
 Simple action verbs related to topics (I eat…food)
 Interrogative – Where is? How many?
 Making cards for special Holidays in TL
French-speaking Culture: French gastronomy, geography of French
speaking countries
3rd
Spanish-speaking Culture: Day of the Dead – Monarch butterfly
migration, geography of Spanish speaking countries
Skills reinforced from 1st and 2nd grades and:
 Body parts (adding new words)
 Shapes (circle, etc.)
 Numbers 1-50
 Simple math (additions/subtractions)
 Alphabet/spelling
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Seasons and basic weather expressions
Read small sentences/stories in TL
Write small sentences/stories in TL
Act out stories in TL
Foods and kitchen utensils
Introduce telling the time
Action verbs related to new topics introduced
Interrogatives: who, what, where, when, why, how many
Making cards for special Holidays in TL
French-speaking Culture: French gastronomy, Differences between
different French speaking countries
4th
Spanish-speaking Culture: Day of the Dead presentation, Differences
between Spanish speaking countries
Skills reinforced from 1st – 3rd grades and:
 Numbers 1-100
 Activities (leisure)
 Telling one thing they did over the weekend. Ex: I played
tennis. I went to…
 Objects in the house
 Spelling words related to topics
 Read short stories in TL
 Write sentences/short stories in TL
 Understanding stories in TL
 Act out stories in TL
 Kitchen accessories
 Telling time
 Express likes/dislikes with nouns
 Action verbs related to topics
 All interrogatives
 Prepositions – in, out, on top of, underneath,
 Making cards for special Holidays in TL
French-speaking Culture: Differences and similarities between French
speaking countries and the U-S
5th
Spanish-speaking Culture: Family, Mexican foods, Differences and
similarities between Spanish speaking countries and U.S.
Skills reinforced from 1st – 4th grades and:
 Numbers 1-100
 Simple math problems in TL
 Telling one thing they did over the weekend
 Words/spelling
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Read short stories in TL
Write sentences/short stories in TL
Understanding stories in TL
Act out stories in TL
Express likes/dislikes with nouns and verbs
Clothes
Food
Objects in the class
Action verbs related to topics
French-speaking Culture: Project about a region in a French speaking
country
Spanish-speaking Culture: Project about a region in a Spanish speaking
country, Cinco de Mayo celebration