Looking for a way to help scaffold your student's writing and speaking? These printable cheerful word bubbles make for a great way to create a word wall for your classroom that students can reference any time. Based on high-frequency French vocabulary, these bubbles range from connecting words, negation, transitions, simple/common verbs, question words and more. See the Preview for the complete list and for a view of the words in action. There is also a blank set included for any additional voca
Looking for classroom decorations that also help your students when they are reading, writing, or speaking? If so, check out this bundle of all of my French classroom reference posters. My own students find them incredibly helpful in the classroom and actually asked for these specific topics of posters for the room. This bundle includes the following 8 poster listing: French Classroom Writing Reference Poster - Affiche Mots de transition/liaisonFrench Classroom Past Tenses Reference Poster - Af
Digital print and use poster files for two 24x36 posters listing transition and linking words to be used as a reference for students in class. Use this poster to help students with their writing and storytelling and as a reference for improving their own writing. The file contains two files/versions: one with an English translation of the words and one without. The poster has been very helpful in my own classroom as we work to improve our writing and storytelling. This poster is also available
Digital print and use poster file for a 24x36 poster of various phrases that are helpful for classroom discussion. Use this poster to help students express their opinions and stay in the target language with sentences like "Je suis d'accord avec ______" and "À mon avis, ...". The file include two version of the poster: one with an English translation and one without. This poster is also available as part of my discounted French Classroom Reference Poster Bundle. My other student reference clas
Looking for a way to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing French geography? Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different places and shuffle them up. In my class, I take half of a class period or so towards the beginning of the year and go through the map as a class. I go through each city/region indivi
Looking for a way to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing geography in French? Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year or each semester and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year for classroom activities. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different places and shuffle them up. In my class, I take half of a class period or so towards the beginning of the year and go through the map as
Digital print and use poster files for two 24x36 posters explaining the passé composé and imparfait tenses as a reference for students in class. Use this poster to help students with their writing and storytelling and as a reference for formation. Each poster includes common examples. The Passé composé poster includes both helping verbs, regular past participles and common irregular past participles. The imparfait poster includes formation as well as common verbs and transitions that typically i
Digital print and use poster file for a 24x36 poster of French question words as a reference for students in class. Use this poster to help students ask questions and stay in the target language with all of the different question words up front for them to see. The file contains two versions: one without English and one with English depending on your preference. The poster has been very helpful in my own classroom as we practice asking/creating questions. The following question words are includ
Looking for different ways to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing geography in French? This file includes all 5 of my different partner map products. Buy the bundle and get one set free! Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year or each semester and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year for classroom activities. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different places and shuffle them up.
Digital print and use poster files for four 24x36 posters listing the different direct and indirect object pronouns to be used as a reference for students in class. Use this poster to help students with their writing and storytelling and as a reference for improving their own writing. The file contains four files/versions: with/without with an English translation of the words and with/without the placement reminder. The poster has been very helpful in my own classroom as we work to improve our
Looking for a way to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing geography in French? Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year or each semester and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year for classroom activities. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different places and shuffle them up. In my class, I take half of a class period or so towards the beginning of the year and go through the map as
Digital print and use poster files for two 24x36 posters and two 18x24 posters (same material, different layouts) explaining the futur proche, futur, conditionnel and compound tenses (futur antérieur, plus-que-parfait, conditionnel passé) as a reference for students in class. Use these posters to help students with their writing and as a reference for how to form the different tenses. The file contains four files: two different layouts for the simple tenses (futur proche, futur & conditionnel
Looking for a way to help scaffold your student's writing and speaking? These printable cheerful word bubbles make for a great way to create a word wall for your classroom that students can reference any time. Based on high-frequency Spanish vocabulary, these bubbles range from connecting words, negation, transitions, simple/common verbs, question words and more. See the Preview for the complete list and for a view of the words in action. There is also a blank set included for any additional voc
Looking for a way to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing French geography? Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different parts of France and shuffle them up. In my class, I take half of a class period or so towards the beginning of the year and go through the map as a class. I go through each city/regi
Looking for a way to easily pair up your students and shuffle who they work with while also reviewing geography in French? Have students fill out these partner maps at the beginning of the year or each semester and then use it to quickly find partners for the rest of the year for classroom activities. Or, change maps every quarter/semester to review different places and shuffle them up. In my class, I take half of a class period or so towards the beginning of the year and go through the map as
Only French teacher at a rural high school in Central Ohio -- Exploratory, 1, 2, 3, & AP
Teaching style
I try and focus on getting the students to communicate and engage with authentic resources all while including games and lessons with some traditional grammar. That said, I like making my handouts look pretty. I believe that the more visually engaging a paper is, the more the students will want to look at it and interact with the material.
My own education history
B.A. in French and English, Ohio University
M.A. in French, The Ohio State University
M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education, The Ohio State University
Additional biographical information
When not teaching or lesson planning, I love to teach indoor cycling, cook, do home reno, and hang out with my husband and our three kids.
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