Teachers will appreciate the clear and explicit self-directed instructions for students. Could this be incorporated into Daily Five? Grade 2-4 could be fairly independent with these reading response strategies. Click on images for direct link to files.
AFFICHES DES CINQ AU QUOTIDIEN ET CAFÉ DE Madame Bernice:
Creating a channel for your school or classroom on youtube is an easy way to build an online library of quality 'listen to reading' options for students. Playlists can be uploaded and sorted by season, term, or subject area. I have developed a channel for K-2 and regularly add videos or closed captioned reading and songs for 'Listen to Reading' during the Daily Five. Try these searches to curate your own channel:
Comptines (the captioned ones are what I intend, those uploaded by 'comptines')
Alain le lait
Matt Maxwell
Primary Success Paola
Morning Message
I am a huge huge believer in the power of having a morning message. I feel this shared writing and reading experience is a bridge between learning letter sounds and sound blends and being able able to read text. On day 1 of Kindergarten, I write "Bonjour" as my message and quickly we are writing/reading a couple of sentences every morning ("Bonjour les amis. Comment ça va?" "Bonjour mes amis. On a la bibliothèque aujourd'hui."). I will have students search for and circle letters in the message or sound blends later in the year. I've included a link to some other ideas for Morning message.
I use a home reading program in Kindergarten that our school purchased. It contains 30 kits, each containing a book, a CD, a magnetic matching game and a parent translation sheet. The students and the parents really enjoy the program, especially as the CD does not require that the parents speak or understand French. Here's the link to the companies' website:
This is a photo of a grade 1 package which includes a written portion. For kindergarten only the book, CD and matching game is included.
Kindergarten Songs
Here is a file of songs that I use in my classroom and put into a duotang on our bookshelf. It is a very well-loved book! I am continuing to add to this book throughout the year. I also send these songs in a take-home book that also contains the Manuel Phonique letter pages in a reduced size. I have gotten a lot of really great feedback from parents and students about having atake-home book as the kids feel so grown up having "homework"!
The Daily Five literacy program. Magnifying glasses with sound blends are laminated and used by students to find the sounds they know during quiet reading or around the classroom. Such a simple idea and yet students love to search through books with these to find the sounds they know.
By January in grade 1 I send home these home reading tracking booklets. The inside leaf explains to parents how they are to be used and the cover is decorated by the student. As both a parent and a teacher I know how busy the evening can get and how tough it is to remember to get that reading done every night. I find this booklet, if nothing else, reminds parents and students to sit down and read a book en français. My students also keep ziploc bags of 'finish me' books that we have made in class or books of songs we know (you will find these throughout the wiki by theme and on the Page titled 'Les petits livres'. These are very simple and the students are pleased to show that they can read or sing in French.
The instructions for parents also includes a link to a text to speech website. This is website where parents can type in a word and hear it read in French, a great way to help their child with their reading.
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