22 grammatical mistakes that drive FSL teachers nuts!

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I just published this on Teachers Pay Teachers.

It is 22 common FSL mistakes that students learning french will often make.

How to use:

I usually use this as a centre in my language block. When students are at this centre, they pick a grammar rule and chose an activity.

Their job in this centre is to find a creative way to present the grammar rule.

You can print off these rules, glue them on colourful paper and laminate them. This way you can reuse them over the years!

Examples of rules on cards:
“J’ai 12 ans” pas “je suis 12 ans”, “je suis allé” pas “j’ai allé”. Things that drive you crazy as a FSL teacher!

Send me an email: myclasscafe@gmail.com if you want me to add any rules. I will then add and update the file for free! 🙂

10 Reading Comprehension Strategies (in French)

I was getting a little tired of my reading comprehension strategies that I have had for about 7 years, so I made up some new cute ones in French.

I have put them up on Teachers Pay Teachers for 4$. You get 10 strategies for that price! They are the following reading strategies:

Connexions
Prédictions
Idées importantes
Résume
Synthèse
Compréhension
Questions
Inférences
Évaluations
Visualisations

Enjoy! I have included one example!

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Passeport de français

I recently uploaded my Passeport de Français to Teachers Pay Teachers. It’s a French Literacy Passport (will do an English soon!). It’s a great way to monitor what literacy centres the students are using. It adds a level of accountability to their work during the literacy block as well.

Some examples of centres in my class are independent reading, journal writing, word work, guided reading, reading-buddies etc.  I have a different stamp labelled for each of the centres. The student stamps it and then a peer needs to verify that it has been done and write their name and sign.

The page when printed needs to be folded in the hotdog-hamburger format (there is a You Tube video on how to fold paper this way). Once the passport is complete, they hand it in. It is a good formative assessment for the learning skills as well (i.e. is student on task?).

My students seem to enjoy it as it is independent work and they feel that they can pick which centre they want. However there is a rule that they can’t have a centre more than twice in the passport. 🙂

 

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