PEI PLA French Immersion study plan
PEI PLA French Immersion · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
French language proficiency (oral and written communication)
Audit your current French proficiency by completing a self-assessment against DELF B2/C1 descriptors for oral production, written production, and listening, and record specific gaps in a written inventory.
Build a personal lexicon of 150 academic and classroom-management expressions (instructions, feedback phrases, transition words) organized by function, and drill them aloud daily.
Record three 3-minute spontaneous monologues on education topics and transcribe them to identify recurring grammatical errors (verb tense, agreement, pronoun use).
Write a 400-word opinion text on a schooling issue in French and self-correct it against a checklist of connectors, register, and syntax.
Your checkpoint
A written proficiency gap report (in French) listing your diagnosed strengths, 10 prioritized error patterns, and a personal lexicon file of 150 expressions.
French language proficiency (oral and written communication) & French immersion pedagogy and second-language acquisition
Summarize in French, from memory, five core second-language acquisition concepts (comprehensible input, output hypothesis, interaction, noticing, affective filter) and explain each in 100 words.
Compare immersion, intensive core French, and francophone first-language programs in a written French comparison table with at least six distinguishing criteria.
Practice 20 minutes of sustained French listening daily (podcast or radio) and log new vocabulary with context sentences.
Deliver a 5-minute recorded explanation in French of how the affective filter affects a Grade 4 immersion classroom, using at least three concrete examples.
Your checkpoint
A 600-word French synthesis document on second-language acquisition principles with a comparison table of program models.
French immersion pedagogy and second-language acquisition & Literacy and language arts in French
Design a 3-lesson sequence that applies the gradual release model (modeled, shared, guided, independent) in a French immersion literacy context.
Identify and describe five research-informed strategies for developing oral language as a foundation for reading in French.
Analyze a French children's picture book for vocabulary tier, sentence complexity, and cultural content, and justify its use at a specific grade level.
Draft a French-language lesson plan with explicit language objectives and content objectives distinguished from each other.
Your checkpoint
A complete 3-lesson French literacy sequence with dual (language and content) objectives, materials list, and rationale grounded in second-language acquisition research.
Planning and assessment in French immersion & Literacy and language arts in French
Write measurable French-language objectives using observable verbs for listening, speaking, reading, and writing at two grade levels.
Construct a French reading comprehension assessment with literal, inferential, and critical-thinking items, plus a scoring rubric with four performance levels.
Design three formative assessment routines (exit ticket, observation grid, oral conference) usable in a French immersion classroom and describe how each informs instruction.
Explain in French how to assess content knowledge without penalizing language errors, and produce a sample dual-criteria rubric.
Your checkpoint
A French reading assessment package: 10 items across three comprehension levels, a four-level analytic rubric, and three described formative routines.
Content-area instruction in French (mathematics, science, social studies)
Plan a Grade 5 mathematics lesson taught entirely in French, and pre-teach the specific mathematical vocabulary and sentence frames required for problem solving.
Adapt a science inquiry task so that French language demands are scaffolded (word walls, sentence starters, visuals) without reducing scientific rigor.
Design a social studies task requiring students to interpret a French-language primary source and justify their reasoning orally in French.
Compile a bilingual glossary of 60 content-area terms across mathematics, science, and social studies, noting cognates and false friends.
Your checkpoint
One integrated content-area unit outline (mathematics or science) with explicit language scaffolds, a 60-term bilingual glossary, and sample sentence frames.
Differentiation and inclusive practices for language learners & Planning and assessment in French immersion
Profile three fictional immersion learners (a newcomer with limited French, a student with a language-based learning disability, a gifted student) and specify adaptations for each.
Differentiate one existing French lesson into three tiers of support while keeping the same core content objective.
Describe how to distinguish language acquisition errors from indicators of a possible learning disability, and outline a referral process in French.
Design a progress-monitoring tool for oral French that can be used weekly with struggling learners.
Your checkpoint
A differentiation portfolio: three learner profiles, one three-tier differentiated French lesson, and a weekly oral progress-monitoring form.
Professional knowledge, ethics, and PEI school context & French immersion pedagogy and second-language acquisition
Summarize the structure of the PEI school system in French, including the Department of Education and Early Years, school districts, and the role of the francophone and French immersion programs.
Explain in French the professional obligations of teachers in PEI regarding student safety, reporting, confidentiality, and ethical conduct.
Describe the legal and policy framework supporting French immersion and minority-language education in Canada and PEI at a general level.
Practice responding in French to four scenario-based ethical dilemmas (assessment fairness, parent communication, colleague conflict, inclusion).
Your checkpoint
A French-language study sheet on PEI school context and professional ethics, plus four written scenario responses of 150 words each.
French language proficiency (oral and written communication) & Planning and assessment in French immersion & Content-area instruction in French (mathematics, science, social studies)
Complete two full timed practice written responses in French (one pedagogical, one content-area planning) under exam conditions and self-score against a rubric.
Deliver two recorded 10-minute oral explanations in French on planning and assessment topics without notes.
Review and consolidate all error patterns logged since week 1, and re-test the highest-frequency ones.
Summarize the entire study plan into a one-page French revision sheet covering all seven domains.
Your checkpoint
A timed mock assessment package: two written responses, two recorded oral explanations, and a one-page French revision sheet with self-scored rubric results.
Milestones
Week 2: You can explain five second-language acquisition concepts in French from memory and have a 150-expression lexicon file in active use.
Week 4: You have produced a complete French literacy lesson sequence and a reading assessment package with a four-level rubric, and can articulate how formative assessment drives instruction.
Week 6: You can plan a content-area lesson in French with explicit language scaffolds and justify differentiated adaptations for three distinct learner profiles.
Week 8: You have completed two timed written responses and two unscripted 10-minute oral explanations in French, self-scored against a rubric, with a one-page revision sheet covering all seven domains.