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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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
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
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
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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--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--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--television/physical descriptions
New to embedded readings or do you do them on the regular? Here's one designed for mid-level students with a TV theme that also includes physical description vocabulary. Written for intermediate learners, it is a 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--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
SPANISH CLASS Partner Sheets 8 cultural ways to pair up your students!
Looking to get ALL of your students working together without having to force the issue? Here's the solution! This is a Spanish take on the "clock" sheets--you know, those sheets where students go around and sign up on each other's sheet to be their "1:00 partner", and so on? Well, here are 8 Spanish-themed partner sheets with 20 items/spaces each, all with a cultural relevance: *artists*landmarks*cities*Spanish-speaking countries*important people*musicians*foods*film starsNot only will your st
6th - 12th
Spanish
Also included in: FRENCH & SPANISH CLASS Partner Sheets--BUNDLE of 16 cultural themes
French Embedded Reading--les Animaux/Animals For Intermediate Readers
Whether you are new to embedded reading or an old pro, here's one that is sure to entertain and challenge your students. A wide variety of vocabulary with a fun story, it is sure to be a hit with your classes. This is for intermediate or advanced readers. This histoire d'amitié is a great workout for French adverbs as well! 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
Nationality/être story and activities--Mes Amis Internationaux
Simple story with questions and activities for beginners with focus on être and nationalities. Reading is followed with 5 pages of activities including: *identifying*drawing OR inserting pictures*correcting errors*answering questions*matching*adjective agreement*describing the nationalities of people they knowDesigned for novice learners, this is also great for review with more advanced students. Great for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day! Best of all-- No prep for you, just print or upl
6th - 10th
French, Reading
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!
EMBEDDED READING with a twist--Au Restaurant with Beau, Nouveau and Vieux
Looking to add to your CI curriculum by using Embedded Readings? Here's one with a fun twist--students have to fill in forms of BEAU, NOUVEAU and VIEUX throughout all three parts of the story! This is a great intermediate reading exercise as well as a fantastic review of these three pesky adjectives that all students need to check in with from time to time. Great for a sub day, a rainy day, or any day. NO PREP FOR YOU-- Just print/upload and go!
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French, Reading
Also included in: BEAU NOUVEAU VIEUX--BUNDLE
French adjective stories
These French stories are FULL of adjectives! Designed for first-year French learners, these 5 paragraphs are simple descriptions of people being introduced to us. They have to read, then draw the people as they are described. Also included is a list of all 34 adjectives included throughout the stories, a QUI activity for reading comprehension, and short writings for students to describe (and draw again) themselves and others! Not only that, but there is a chart of masculine/feminine adjecti
Not Specific
French, Reading
Also included in: Les Adjectifs--French adjectives for beginners BUNDLE
Passé Composé vs Imparfait--10 stories
Still working on PC vs Imparfait? Here are 9 fun stories with fill in the blanks for students hone their skills in telling tales in the past. Included are a couple of familiar fairy tales as well as original stories written by me. There is a quiz (another story, for a total of 10) at the end as well. Oh, and the Star Wars story is absolutely true! Best of all, absolutely no prep for you--just print/upload and go!
9th - 12th
French, Grammar
FRENCH VERB GUIDE--for intermediate students EASY TO USE!
Looking for a resource for your students that is QUICK, EASY TO USE guide to the most basic French verbs? Well, le voici! Created for intermediate students, but usable by any level, really, this guide walks students through: *5 basic tenses: présent, passé composé, imparfait, futur simple, conditionnel*Regular verbs*Subsets of regular verbs (partir verbs, prendre verbs, etc)*Verb families*Irregular verbs--25 of them FULLY CONJUGATED IN ALL 5 TENSES (and in alphabetical order)*Reflexive ver
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French, Grammar
Beau/Nouveau/Vieux Creative, engaging activities!
Need to work on Beau/Nouveau/Vieux and all of their pesky forms? Here you go-- more than 35 pages worth of creative, fun activities!! *games*speaking*fill ins*sentence arrange*singular to plural*writing (and rewriting!)*speaking*drawing*writer's choiceand so much more!Lots to choose from--a wide variety of activities for a wide variety of learning styles!Best of all, everything is LITTLE TO NO PREP FOR YOU, just print and go!
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French, Grammar
Also included in: BEAU NOUVEAU VIEUX--BUNDLE
BEAU NOUVEAU VIEUX--BUNDLE
Working on BEAU, NOUVEAU and VIEUX and are out of ideas? Here's a bundle of activities to handle these adjectives to address a WIDE variety of learning styles: *listening*speaking*drawing*reading*games*and so much more--more than 35 pages' worthPLUS an EMBEDDED READING WITH A TWIST!Lots to pick and choose from and most everything is NO PREP FOR YOU, just PRINT AND GO!
Not Specific
French, Grammar
French embedded readings BUNDLE OF 8 STORIES
New to embedded reading? It's a great CI/TPRS technique that helps build students' confidence in tackling longer readings by starting with a short, simple text and adding more on each successive page. If you're a CI/TPRS person, you know this technique works! 8 different stories, all with different subjects and levels:*Television/physical descriptions -intermediate*driving/negations--advanced*shopping--novice high/intermediate*animals--intermediate/advanced*soccer game--novice/intermediate lo
9th - 12th
French, Reading
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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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