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The Show, Tell, Read Framework in the unit Tu aimes le sport? Reading Strategies in Action The unit integrates six comprehension strategies: Keeping Practice Separate from Assessment The unit includes four days of practice before a fifth-day reading assessment. Games like Blooket and the Marker Game provide vocabulary reinforcement without grading pressure. The EdPuzzle activity…
Here’s a four-day unit plan built around an episode of the French cartoon Petit Nicolas that shows how Comprehensible Input strategies can transform an authentic resource into accessible, engaging learning. Each activity intentionally builds on the previous one. Students are guided step-by-step from supported listening to independent writing. By Day 4, they’re producing French text.…
If you teach French, you’ve probably wrestled with how to get students comfortable listening to authentic French when native speakers talk at lightning speed. I’ve found that EdPuzzle is a game-changer if you use it the right way. How the app supports Language Learning Let’s be honest: listening comprehension is hard. But when students can…
A compelling photo can tell a story and can be leveraged into a context for a conversation. Start by eliciting vocabulary from the students, then you can use that vocabulary to talk about the picture. You will finish by constructing a text together with your students, which you will ask them to read. Picture Talk…