French Standards Alignments

Education Standards Alignment with Crayola Creativity Week

Supporting Learning through Cross-Curricular, Creative Learning Experiences

French

Understand and express oneself orally

  • understand and interpret complex oral messages and speech;

  • express themselves in a controlled manner when addressing an audience;

  • participate constructively in oral exchanges;

  • exploit the expressive and creative resources of speech.

Read

  • check their comprehension, become an autonomous reader;

  • read non-literary texts, images and composite documents (including digital);

  • read literary works and visit works of art;

  • develop an interpretation of literary texts.

To write

  • exploit the main functions of writing;

  • adopt effective writing strategies and procedures;

  • use readings to enrich their writing;

  • move from intuitive recourse to argumentation to more controlled use.

Understand how language works

  • know the differences between speaking and writing;

  • analyze the functioning of the simple sentence and the complex sentence;

  • consolidate lexical and grammatical spelling;

  • enrich and structure the lexicon;

  • build the concepts allowing the analysis and the elaboration of texts and speech.

Acquire elements of literary and artistic culture

  • mobilize cultural references to interpret texts and creations

  • artistic and literary and to enrich his personal expression;

  • establish links between literary and artistic creations from different cultures and of various eras.

Art and Culture

Encounters 

  • cultivate their sensitivity, their curiosity and their pleasure in encountering works (3)

  • exchange with an artist, a creator or an art and culture professional

  • apprehend artistic works and productions

  • identify the diversity of places and cultural actors in its territory

Practice

  • use techniques of artistic expression adapted to a production

  • implement a creative process

  • design and produce the presentation of a production

  • integrate into a collective process

  • reflect on their practice

Knowledge

  • express aesthetic emotion and critical judgment

  • use appropriate vocabulary for each artistic or cultural field

  • connect different fields of knowledge

  • mobilize their knowledge and experiences to help understand the work