This article aims to identify, analyze, and classify verbal expressions in the Indonesian cultural environmentconsisting of Sundanese, Minangkabau, Dayak, and Sasak ethnicities. Furthermore, these results will becomethe terms of reference for the Citizenship Education learning model that is implemented thematically inelementary schools. The theme of peace is carried out through instrumentation and conceptualization of thecontents of the local wisdom message which becomes a medium of articulation of the achievement of learningoutcomes which is manifested from the tendency of values, social behavior of students in class and schooltentatively and longitudinally. The research methodology used is the ethnopedagogic approach through semioticanalysis of textual and field data sources. The source of the textual data is through the process of classification,codification, verification and semantic analysis to obtain verbal expression descriptions that describe the culturallife artifacts of ethnic units that will be subject and object of field trials and analysis. The results of thepreliminary study in this form are the classification of expressions, which then become the basis for constructingmodels of citizenship education learning in schools, which are then designed to achieve the literacy skills ofcitizenship culture and the ethos of peace in students.