FRENCHDIVA
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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31 years of classroom experience in French, Spanish, and Latin, all levels. Now I teach at our local community college and I am loving it. Meanwhile I have decades worth of teaching materials that worked for me along the way so I have decided to spruce them up, add even more stuff, and offer them here!
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EL TIEMPO--Spanish weather reading FREE!
Studying weather and seasons with your Spanish students? Here is an activity to help them with reading: 3 short "stories" about someone's fave seasons and why. Vocab includes weather, seasons and verbs that people do during those times. Students are asked to draw and do a bit of writing themselves about their fave season and why! Great for novice learners but also good review for anyone. Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day (no pun intended) or any day! Best of all-- NO PREP FOR YOU, just print a
6th - 12th
Reading, Spanish, World Languages
L'ACTION DE GRÂCE Grateful French Turkeys for Grateful French Students FREE!
Here are 6 Thanksgiving turkeys for your French students to complete to express their gratitude and thanks-- EN FRANÇAIS!Each of the 6 turkeys has a sentence starter with 6 feathers--students have to write a response in each of the 6 feathers. 6 sentences x 6 responses = 36 total written answers!Great for all levels of French, from novice to advanced! NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!Designed in color (but will print out in greyscale just fine) to be cut apart and hung in a hallway or on a bul
6th - 12th
French
Passé Composé vs Imparfait--Les 3 Petits Cochons FREE download!
Working on Passé Composé VS Imparfait? I know that's a challenging topic, and one that is ongoing. Here's a fun, familiar story for students to practice deciding which tense to use when telling a story in the past. The story has blanks with given verbs for students to first figure out which tense to use, then to write the correct form. A wide variety of verbs are used--regular (including reflexive) and irregular. This is great for all levels--from classes first learning these tenses to a fun
6th - 12th
French, Grammar
CITROUILLES SOURIANTES--Happy pumpkins for happy students!
Here are 5 Halloween pumpkins for your French students to complete to help them get into the SPIRIT of the holiday-- EN FRANÇAIS!Each of the 5 pumpkins has a sentence starter for students to complete with either a single word, a short phrase, a complete sentence, or a short paragraph--all depending on their level! Great for all levels of French, from novice to advanced! NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!Designed in color (but will print out in greyscale just fine) to be cut apart and hung in a
6th - 12th
French, Writing
French weather reading FREE download!
Studying weather and seasons with your French students? Here is an activity to help them with reading: 3 short "stories" about someone's fave seasons and why. Vocab includes weather, seasons and verbs that people do during those times. Students are asked to draw and do a bit of writing themselves about their fave season and why! Great for novice learners but also good review for anyone. Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day (no pun intended) or any day! Best of all-- NO PREP FOR YOU, just print
6th - 12th
French, World Languages
L'HIVER--les FLOCONS DE NEIGE Simple French winter writing for any level
Here is a great, free resource for any level French student to write about what they love about winter! 6 snowflakes with sentence prompt in the middle, each prompt asks for 6 responses--one for each side of each snowflake. 6 snowflakes x 6 responses = 36 sentences!Although in color, they print out fine in greyscale. Designed large enough to be cut out and displayed in hallway or your classroom for everyone to read and enjoy as we all celebrate the season! This is part of a larger HIVER unit fi
6th - 12th
French, Writing
LE NOËL Christmas gifts--simple French writing for all levels
Here is a fun, creative way to get students thinking about Christmas gifts and writing a bit about them. There are 9 gift boxes with tags, and on each tag students have to say who the gift is to and from along with a sentence or two about what the gift is, why it was chosen and/or a short description. This resource is great for all levels--you decide what grammar/vocab they need to use and how much detail they need to give. This is one of the 18 activities in my Christmas pack : LE NOËL 18 fun
6th - 12th
French, Writing
French dice game--un Jeu De Dés FREE download!
This is a great rainy day game for any level French class. You need a lot of dice--each student should have their own set of 2 dice, but of course they can share. Usually played in pairs or small groups, this game should take no more than 20 minutes. The kids love these games! Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all-- NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!If you like this, I have a whole packet of 14 more games in my store! Here's the link: French dice gamesEnjoy! :-)
6th - 12th
French, Vocabulary
Spanish dice game
This is a great rainy day game for any level Spanish class. You need a lot of dice--each student should have their own set of 2 dice, but of course they can share. Usually played in pairs or small groups, this game should take no more than 20 minutes. The kids love these games! Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all-- NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!If you like this, I have a whole packet of 14 more games in my store! Here's the link: Spanish dice games
6th - 12th
Spanish, Vocabulary, World Languages
SER OR ESTAR board game
This is a simple board game that I created for first-year Spanish students to practice the present tense forms of ser and estar as well as distinguish between them. You can, of course, change it up to use any tense or have it be a fun, quick Friday review or Monday warm-up. My students loved this game! All you need are dice, then just print and go--no prep for you!
6th - 12th
Spanish, World Languages
Also included in: SER/ESTAR 5 game BUNDLE!
Te gusta... opinion activity
This is a PowerPoint with 30 questions asking students what they like in terms of music, mostly singing and a few with dancing. The idea is that this is a physically participatory activity: I used to do it with one side of the room being Sí and the other being No and they had to move from one side to the other as their opinions/habits dictated. Of course you can use these any way you want, but let me just say that my students LOVED the back and forth activities like this and always begged
Not Specific
Music, Spanish, World Languages
World Languages Speaking Topics--100 TOPICS for any language, any level!
Speaking in the target language is the hardest and most intimidating skill for students. We are always looking to get your students to SPEAK more, so here is something I used with my students for years. I did it once per week with novice levels and twice per week with intermediate and advanced. More details in the document. I used both a dartboard (plastic tip or even a ball) or 20-sided dice. A spinner with 20 numbers can work as well as any sorting device from 1-20. Included are 5 lists
6th - 12th
Speaking & Listening, World Languages
Plus-que-parfait fairy tales--What happened BEFORE the story?
This amusing lesson in the plus-que-parfait tells the imagined story of Humpty Dumpty before he made his fateful climb up on the wall. The story is all in the PQP until he falls, so we are learning about what happened before the main event. There are 8 other fairy tales with a picture and a significant event, and students take the example of Humpty Dumpty and craft their own imagined versions of what happened in each story before the given event. Great practice for plus-que-parfait, which is
11th - 12th, Higher Education
French, Grammar
FRENCH EMBEDDED READING--Regular -IR verbs
Looking to do something new with REGULAR -IR VERBS IN FRENCH? Have you tried embedded readings? A great addition to your CI classroom, or any classroom really, this reading is scaffolded to help students gain confidence in reading slightly longer passages. This reading works with 20 regular -IR verbs (not just the same 6 or 7 over and over!) in a story with an air-travel theme. Great review for more advanced students and perfect for novice high or intermediate learners! NO PREP FOR YOU--
8th - 12th
French, Reading
Also included in: REGULAR -IR VERBS in FRENCH--SUPER FUN UNIT + EMBEDDED READING!
French Embedded Reading--Un Voyage par le Train
Interested in adding embedded readings to your CI classroom? Or are you new to CI and want to try something different? Here's a train-themed reading that you read one page at a time--the first page has basic information, the second takes that same info and adds another layer, the third has the complete story. You could even have your students add even more for a fourth page! This is written for novice high or intermediate learners but is a great view for upper-level students as well. Great for
Not Specific
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
French Embedded Reading--La Conduite/Négations
Whether you are new to embedded readings or do them on the regular, here is one designed for upper-level students with a car/driving theme. Also included are a variety of French negation constructions.For intermediate high or advanced learners, this reading is written in the present tense but also contains future and conditional tenses. Great for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all--NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!
9th - 12th
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
French Embedded reading--Les Achats/Shopping
Whether you are new to embedded reading or a pro, try this one with a shopping theme. Lots of shopping related vocabulary as well as a fair amount of direct object pronouns. Great for vocab review and object pronoun practice! Written for intermediate learners, this is great review for advanced students as well. Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all--NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!
9th - 12th
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
French Embedded Reading--La famille/family
Looking to add Embedding Readings to your CI classroom? Here's a fun one about a Belgian family written for novice learners--names, ages, jobs, appearance, personality, basic first-year vocabulary. This is a good introduction to Embedded Reading if you are new to technique! NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!
6th - 9th
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
French Embedded Reading--MOI--for novice learners
Looking to add Embedded Readings to your curriculum? Here's a great one for first-year learners: a young girl named Claudine is introducing herself using vocabulary typically taught during the first part of the first year: physical descriptions, including adjectives and hair, and things she likes and doesn't like to do Embedded reading is a great part of any classroom, especially if you're looking to introduce more CI into your classes! Best of all--NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!If y
6th - 9th
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
French Embedded reading--Un Match de Foot/Soccer Game
Whether you are new to embedded reading or a pro, this simple one is designed for earlier learners of French with a soccer theme. Lots of sports-related vocabulary throughout. For novice mid to high and intermediate readers, this is also a great review for more advanced students. Perfect for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all--NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!
8th - 12th
French, Reading
Also included in: EMBEDDED READING-A-PALOOZA! French embedded readings for all levels
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About the store
Experience
31 years of classroom experience in French, Spanish, and Latin, all levels. Now I teach at our local community college and I am loving it. Meanwhile I have decades worth of teaching materials that worked for me along the way so I have decided to spruce them up, add even more stuff, and offer them here!
Teaching style
Definitely a mix of it all--traditional, grammar, CI, TPRS... I like to mix it up so I hit everyone's learning style at some point in each lesson.
I am a big SmartBoard educator, lots of stuff in SmartNotebook that turned out to be great lessons and fun interactive activities that my students loved! Sadly, no one uses SmartNotebook anymore, so I turned most of those activities into similarly structured paper stuff or PowerPoints. Same idea, just on paper or a PowerPoint. My larger units all contain a wide variety of listening, reading, writing, speaking, games, synthesis, a vocabulary choice board and many, many other kinds of activities... the list is exhaustive. I try to include as many different kinds of activities in each unit as I can to address as many learning styles as I can.
Awards & shining teacher moments
NHS Teacher of the Year 2009
My own education history
M.A. Syracuse University French Language and Literature
B.A. State University of New York at Potsdam French, Education
Additional biographical information
Where to begin? Lots of student trips--more than a dozen between Quebec and Europe (France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland).
I also marched in drum and bugle corps in the 80's and 90's and still love it.
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