Do you teach anchor words in French for each letter of the French alphabet to your students? Especially if you’re in a primary grade, you probably do! Anchor words are so key for helping our students remember their letter sounds. In fact, they are so important that at my school,...
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A Simple Blending Activity to Add to Your French Phonics Routine
Let’s talk about blending French sounds a bit today with this engaging blending activity! It’s no secret that, in order to learn to read, our students need to learn how to take a few sounds, string them together, and “say them fast” to turn them into words. It’s also no...
5 Simple Ways to Use French Vocabulary Cards
Do you own any of my French vocabulary cards bundle? These vocabulary cards are so versatile and can be used in so many different ways that I thought it would be fun to write a blog post featuring 5 of my favourite ways to use them. I LOVE being able...
An Engaging, Effective Way to Review the Alphabet with your French Primary Students
To all my grade one teachers out there… How have you been finding your students’ French alphabet knowledge since the pandemic? In my case, I have had to review the alphabet with my grade one students each year so far. Even though they are *supposed* to know all 36 phonemes...
The Easiest-Ever Addition to Your French Writing Centre!
Have you ever had any of these problems with your maternelle French writing centre? You send your students and they just… don’t write! They draw, they chat, they are silly, they make crafts, etc. etc… but, no writing! You spend ages setting up an adorable, Pinterest-perfect writing centre, with vocabulary...
How to Boost Comprehension as Your French Primary Students Decode
Let's talk about reading decoding and comprehension today. Now that the Science of Reading is becoming more and more popular, and we are learning more about how our students’ brains work as they learn to read, we know that we need to better teach our French primary students to decode....
This or That? Print Vs. Digital French Morning Messages
In today’s blog post, I want to talk a little bit about French morning messages. I don't know about you, but since the pandemic, I have learned to do a lot of things digitally. For some things, I was happy to return to not doing digitally when restrictions eased. But,...
Fun Ways to Teach French and Promote la Communication Orale
If you're a French teacher, I bet you've have had the same struggle with la communication orale as almost every other French teacher I've spoken to. It is important to have a bunch of fun ways to teach French to your students! Getting your students to speak in French! Getting...
Teacher Planning Tips Part 3: Staying Organized
Welcome back to my three part teacher planning mini series! This is part three, all about classroom organization ideas. Throughout the series, I have talked about teacher planning tips that have worked best for me over the years to help keep me organized. In the part one, I talked about...
Teacher Planning Tips Part 2: Improve Efficiency
Welcome back to my mini teacher planning series! I've put together my best teacher planning tips that have worked for me over the years. Last post, I talked about picking the right planner and how I do annual plans. This blog post is part 2 of 3. If you haven't...