I wanted to take a few moments today to talk about why giving our students the time to practice decoding words (reading sound by sound) and encoding words (writing sound by sound) is so important for primary students. Understanding decoding and encoding helps with reading skills, phonemic awareness and written...
Simple, Effective, Small Group Games to Teach Your Students to Read in French
As a French kindergarten teacher, you know that decoding is a key part of reading success. Once your students can identify how words are composed and the sounds that each letter (or group of letters) makes, they will be able to read in French with fluency and accuracy. However, it’s...
How to Effectively Teach Rhymes to Your French Primary Students
Teaching your French primary students how to rhyme as well as the importance of rhymes will give them a gift that they can use for the rest of their lives. Learning rhymes at a young age will provide them with a tool to better express themselves and help them understand...
French Phonics: A Simple Solution for Teaching les Sons composés
One struggle that I've had with les sons composés as a French primary teacher? Teaching them in an effective, systematic way! You might be able to relate to this, depending on your school, but I have actually never been provided with a program or a curriculum to follow when teaching...
FAQ: More about Apprendre les sons composés
Welcome to my first ever FAQ blog post! I'm going to try and add more of these to my blogging schedule, to help answer questions that I get often in greater detail than sometimes the TPT Q&A feature allows for. Today's post will hopefully answer a question that I get...
3 Quick & Easy Ways to Stretch Sounds in Maternelle
If you teach a primary grade, you know that in order to learn to read, our students NEED to learn how to decode, and blend letter sounds together to make words. Reading is like an orchestra, with a bunch of factors working altogether, but it's pretty clear that if a...
Tips for Practicing La Conscience Phonologique
I've been talking all about la conscience phonologique lately on the blog, because I believe it is incredibly important! Phonemic awareness is critical for our students' success in reading and writing when they get a little older, and it's essential that they understand the sounds that letters make, before they try to...
The Hierarchy of Conscience Phonologique
If you read last week's blog post, then you know that I shared some tips with you for practicing phonemic awareness skills with your students. Today, I will explain each of the components that you will want to evaluate and practice. These components are what I refer to as the...
C’est quoi, la conscience phonologique?
In recent blog posts, I talked all about kicking off the school year and what I do with my students the first six-ish weeks of school. I want to switch gears in this blog post, so I'm going to talk about something that is so important to get started with...
6 Tips for Teaching Rhyming in Maternelle
When I was a little girl, I went through lots of weird phases. I don't remember learning to rhyme per say, but I DO remember being obsessed with "The Name Song". I think it was from a TV show, or possibly sung by Sharon, Lois, & Bram, but either way,...