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The benefits of more frequent low-stakes assessments
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Continue reading →: The benefits of more frequent low-stakes assessmentsImplementing frequent low-stakes assessments in my 7th-grade French classes yielded positive results. Students showed increased understanding, reduced anxiety, and clearer learning pathways.
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Choosing the Right Games for our Novice Writers
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Continue reading →: Choosing the Right Games for our Novice WritersIn a unit on French schools, students played ‘Game of Six’ and ‘Write-Draw-Pass’ to reinforce vocabulary and start writing sentences. The games supported their learning and made writing fun.
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Why you need to be in Agen this summer
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Continue reading →: Why you need to be in Agen this summerIn the past decade, I’ve written several times about The Agen Workshop, a conference close to my heart. This year’s event, from July 22-27, features language labs, diverse sessions, and leisurely French lunches. Join us in 2024!
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Create Your Classroom Library with $300
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Continue reading →: Create Your Classroom Library with $300The 3rd annual Toward Proficiency classroom library grant offers $300 for a World Language teacher to create an inclusive library. Apply by April 28, 2024, to collaborate and receive the grant.
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Story Listening: Lessons from classroom practice
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Continue reading →: Story Listening: Lessons from classroom practiceThe Motivated Classroom podcast invited me to share my experience with Story Listening in various educational settings. We discussed implementation, debunking myths, setting up, and its effectiveness for language acquisition. Check out the episode!
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Continue reading →: “A Dangerous Power”, the prequel your students have been waiting for“A Dangerous Power” is a prequel to “The Gray Planet” written with specific students’ questions in mind. The graphic novel is available in French and Spanish, with comprehension and reflection questions. Available for purchase.
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Story-Based Countdown to Halloween
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Continue reading →: Story-Based Countdown to HalloweenThough I did not grow up in the US, I am very fond of Halloween and wanted to share my story-based “Countdown to Halloween” mini-unit. It is a ton of fun and I am always impressed with the jump in my Novice students’ fiction reading comprehension skills at the end…
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Card Talk is just the beginning!
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Continue reading →: Card Talk is just the beginning!Card Talk, a technique originally created by Ben Slavic, is a staple in many comprehension-based classrooms. In a nutshell, you distribute a notecard, ask students to write or draw about a specific topic, and then talk about this topic, using the cards and Personalized Questions and Answers (read my friend…
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PJF is getting a massive upgrade!
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Continue reading →: PJF is getting a massive upgrade!LE PETIT JOURNAL FRANCOPHONE is a monthly publication that has been providing comprehensible news summaries from the Francophone world to your classroom since 2016! With each article, you will now also get: Here is a preview of the additional resources you will get with each article. We know you are…
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Continue reading →: Engaging Students in Cross-Language Collaboration with “The Grey Planet”In this guest blog post, Ann Radefeld, French teacher and Language Acquisition Department Head at Woodbury School, shares how her entire school read The Gray Planet in German, French, Latin, and Spanish, and how the students engaged in cross-language projects about the graphic novel. I am thrilled about this initiative…
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