If you remember my blog post last week, I took a few moments to talk about why giving our students time to practice decoding (reading sound by sound) and encoding (writing sound by sound) is so important for primary students. Understanding decoding and encoding helps with reading skills, phonemic awareness...
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...
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...
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...
Literacy Centres: 3 Ways to Help Your French Primary Students Be More Independent
Do any of these scenarios sound like you and your French primary students during your independent literacy centres? You've carefully explained in detail where to go and what to do at each literacy centre. When you tell students to go and get started, somebody looks at you as if you...
3 Fun French Literacy Games for Centres
Let's just talk for a second about teaching and trying to do french literacy games and literacy centres last year (2020-2021… aka, mid-pandemic but trying to pretend that things could be fine in a school with hundreds of people). I’m not sure where you were or what your rules were,...
Using Boom Cards for Sight Words, Vocabulary, Listening Skills & More
For the last two years, my class has been flip flopping between in-class learning and distance learning. I found that with the distance learning, it was challenging for my students to hear French, as well as practice all the skills they had been practicing with pocket chart sentences while at...
The One Resource Every French Primary Teacher Needs to Make Literacy Centres Easy
When I started teaching, I started with nothing - as I’m sure many of you did as well. Everything was hard, but I remember that it was especially hard to do centres & come up with new ideas to rotate in and out. I had my students in groups of...
3 Ways to Practice Masculin/Féminin in the Primary Grades
One struggle I had when I first started teaching writing was how my students had a REALLY tough time with articles in their stories. They would often write sentences like, "J'aime ma une maman." when I had word wall cards that included the article… but I didn’t think I could...
How to Use Pop Its to Help Your Students Read & Write
Question -- if you’re on Instagram, have you been seeing those Pop It fidget toys all over your feed, too? I first saw them via @happy.little.hearts and decided to grab a 2-pack to try last month. Well, I can tell you now that my students are OBSESSED with them, and...