English Language Arts – Immersion
Update on the English Language Arts – Immersion Curriculum (September 2025)
The Bureau de l’éducation française is currently renewing the Grade 1 to 8 English Language Arts – Immersion curriculum.
During the 2025-2026 school year, the Bureau of French Education is moving forward with piloting the new English Language Arts – Immersion curriculum. This renewed curriculum will:
- introduce new learning outcomes, as well as observable behavioural progressions, that meet the needs of each student.
- harmonize learning outcomes with those of the Français arts langagiers – immersion curriculum to make language learning and teaching more fluid and effective.
- capitalize on language transfers between French and English, as well as other languages brought to the French immersion program by Manitoba students.
- support teachers in the planning, teaching, and assessment of language and literacy across grade levels and developmental stages.
In addition, the new English Language Arts – Immersion curriculum will be aligned with the Guiding Principles for a Comprehensive Approach to Reading Instruction in Manitoba (2023) (
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If you would like to participate in the pilot for the 2025-2026 school year, or if you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Bureau de l’éducation française.
Curricular Documents
The prior curriculum framework for ELA – Immersion (2017 draft) continues to reflect the reality of the French immersion program in Manitoba and the needs of its clientele. It presents the four big ideas (practices) that ground all teaching and learning in the ELA-Immersion course while describing how learners might adopt these practices at different times. The practices and the elements that characterize them are common across Grades 1 to 12.
Documents
English Language Arts ─ immersion curriculum documents from previous years.
