French Language Resources (Elementary)

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Subject/Topic:
French Language Resources (Elementary)
Books:
Chansons pour petits et grands! (Book)
Call # 448 POI – Teacher
Making connections: effective literacy practices in FSL
Call # 448 AND – Teacher
This resource advances the teaching and learning of French. By deepening and
broadening teachers' understanding of effective literacy practices, this resource supports
learning for all. Five 'Big Ideas' help teachers to: engage and motivate students; integrate
oral language; assess, scaffold and differentiate for success; make connections between
FSL, first and additional languages; and develop students' language awareness.
Strategies for success : tools for the second-language classroom (Book)
Call # 448 FAU – Teacher
An innovative resource that combines professional learning for French as a Second
Language (FSL) teachers with hundreds of practical ideas, activities, and assessment
tools. It is based on the realities of the FSL classroom and recognizes the role of the FSL
teacher as an integral part of the literacy community. Strategies for Success is a
supportive and easy-to-use resource that: provides clear synopses of theory and research
around language acquisition based on current pedagogical and second-language
studies Focuses on key strategies for the development of literacy skills in the secondlanguage classroom; activates prior knowledge, introduces new materials and
consolidates understanding; provides over 90 quality Blackline Masters in print and on CDROM for lesson planning, instructional activities, and assessment; and presents Case
Studies that provide real-world examples and scenarios.
Streaming Video Resources:
La petite charte de la Terre
Call # SV 760273 – Primary/Junior
Ce documentaire a pour but d'aider les enseignants à transmettre les principes universels
de la Charte de la Terre aux enfants dès leur jeune âge afin qu'ils assument leur rôle de
gardien de la terre et lui assurent un avenir durable.
Carmen à la campagne (Series)
Call # Various – Primary/Junior
- À l'arèna (SV 754153)
- Le camion (SV 754235)
- Le camion (SV 754235)
- A l’ecole des clowns (SV
754236)
- Attention construction! (SV
754237)
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Chez le dentiste (SV 754238)
Au salon de coiffeur (SV
754120)
À l'épicerie (SV 754157)
Au centre de gymnastique (SV
754159)
Au restaurant (SV 754212)
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Au studio de danse (SV
754213)
À la boulangerie (SV 754214)
Chez grand-papa (SV 754233)
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Au musée des sciences natu
(SV 754234)
Kits:
Échos (Series)
Call # ECH 1-3
Échos brings the best current research on literacy to FSL classrooms. Échos offers
engaging, cognitively challenging and linguistically accessible texts. Échos provides
teachers with highly effective instructional and second language acquisition strategies.
Acti-vie 1 Au jeu
Call # ACT 5
In this unit of Acti-vie, students learn about physical activity and action games. The
Experimental Goal is to adapt one of the four games presented in the unit and to
demonstrate it to the rest of the class. Students will: listen to and talk about short, simple
oral texts dealing with familiar topics; read a variety of simple materials and demonstrate
understanding; write ideas and facts; identify and use the vocabulary, grammar and
language conventions.
Circulating Video Resources:
The AIM gesture approach (DVD)
Call # 200124 – Teacher
The AIM Gesture Approach Video is particularly useful for teaching the gestures
associated with new vocabulary. In this video, Wendy Maxwell, the originator of the
Gesture Approach, models approximately 400 different gestures, each corresponding to
a different verb, conjunction, preposition, adverb or adjective. This is the vocabulary from
the first unit of Histoires en action! These vocabulary items are the basic constituents of the
language base necessary for what we call 'critical fluency', with which students can carry
on sustained speech in French. This video can be used both by the teacher to practice
these essential expressions, and in the classroom. This is one of our most popular products.
Contes oraux en Français langue seconde (Series-VHS)
Call # Various – Primary/Junior
- Bonjour, comment ça va? (Call # 701336)
- Le chien et le chat (Call # 701319)
- Le jeu des couleurs (Call # 701324)
Les communautés forestière (VHS)
Call # 711355 – Junior/Intermediate
Une communauté où les gens travaillent avec les arbres, ou avec le bois des arbres,
s'appelle une communauté forestière. Une telle communauté se trouve là où existe une
abondance d'arbres. Ces communautés ont besoin des forêsts, de l'eau. des sources
d'énergie et des moyens de transport, aussi bien que de plusieurs types d'ouvriers.
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Quelques communautés forestìères sont capables d'en offrir beaucoup aux gens qui y
habitent. D'autres communautés forestières offren très peu à cause de leur emplacemet.
Les communautes rurales (DVD)
Call # 200532 – Primary/Intermediate
Une communaute agricole est une communaute ou les gens cultivent des plantes ou
elevent des animaux. II existe plusieurs sortes de communautes agricoles - de petites
fermes familiales et de grandes fermes commericales. Cette video examine: les
differentes sortes de fermes qui se trouvent dans une communaute agricole, les differents
types d'ouvriers dont elle a besoin, les besoins des communautes agricoles, et la vie
quotidienne dans une communaute agricoles (region rurale) comparee a la region
urbaine.
Signs of Quebec (VHS)
Call # 711357 – Junior/Intermediate
Catalogue Subject Headings/Keywords:
Français (Langue) – Etude et enseignement
French language – Study and teaching
French language materials
Suggested Websites:
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers
http://www.caslt.org/
French Language Education in Ontario
http://elfontario.ca/index_en.html
French Teacher.net
http://www.frenchteacher.net/
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