Happy Easter Monday! I hope that you enjoyed/are enjoying a fantastic holiday weekend with your family. I am just popping in today to talk some more about Close Reading in French. You may remember that I posted about it a few years ago - HERE and HERE. I have had...
How to play giant sight-word TWISTER, en français!
I have a busy class this year! I know, I know. Don't we all? Aren't all 5 year olds busy?? Mostly, yes :) But still, this year is one of my busier years. Which is fine by me! When I have busier classes, I find that I stretch myself even...
La correspondance mot à mot et la fluidité
1:1 correspondence (correspondance mot à mot) and fluidity (la fluidité) are both very important skills that we need to develop in our students - even in our beginning readers! Both can be taught and explicitly practiced from the very start of their journey to learn to read, and can be...
Comment gérer vos fiches de lecture
I've been talking all about guided reading lately! If you are just joining me now, click here to read the rest of my posts! And don't forget - if you love free stuff, subscribe below to my newsletter and get access to my exclusive FREE French resource library! Running records...
What my guided reading block looks like
Bonjour! I have been talking a bit about what guided reading looks like in my classroom lately. Last week on my blog, I talked about how I sort my students into their guided reading groups. But once you have your groups together... what exactly should you be doing with them?!...
Putting my guided reading groups together
Bonjour! I am coming up to the end of our second term, and despite the plethora of snow days, being on work to rule here in Nova Scotia since December, protests and a (one-day) strike, I have been thinking a lot about guided reading lately. Work to rule means that...
La lecture guidée en maternelle – How to Teach Your Students to Look at the First Letter
Teaching students to read is a complicated process! There are sooo many things that need to be happening in their little brains in order for them to become successful, independent readers. We need our students to both learn and use a whole bunch of problem-solving strategies in order to figure out...
Comment j’enseigne les mots fréquents
Knowing a wide variety of sight words is SO KEY for primary students when they are learning to read. When your students are able to instantly identify key words without needing to pause and reflect, their brains then have more energy to decode the new words in their text that they...
Maîtriser le centre de lecture à soi en maternelle
Hey everyone! In case you are late to the party, I have been sharing how I run literacy centres in my classroom over the past few weeks. You can find out how I start centres in this post, how I organize them over here, and see ALL of the centres I have...
How to make sure your French Primary Students Master Syllables
Imagine you are doing guided reading with one of your best maternelle students. They are reading along, their little voice getting stronger and more confident with every sentence, when all of a sudden, they reach a new word. A new word, BUT a word that just contains sounds they know...