Confession time! As you probably know, I am anglophone. I grew up speaking English, in an English household, in an English community. I fell in love with the French language in the sixth grade and never looked back, but I was taught completely in English up until grade seven. (In...
How to Start the Year with Pocket Chart Poetry in your French Primary Classroom
Has this ever happened to you in maternelle? It's September, and your kindergarten students know pretty much nothing about being in school. You're bustling about trying to teach them how to properly use scissors and open their lunch boxes... forget about learning to read and write! At the beginning of...
How to Do Guided Reading with Students Who Have Limited French
A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a friend of mine who teaches in another school board. (We both teach en français, but I teach with the francophone board, whereas she is teaching French immersion with an anglophone board). We both teach maternelle, and so we experience many of...