Let’s be honest – for many of our students, writing in French is such a struggle. As teachers, grading 60-125 essays that are poorly written can be torture. Imagine if you…
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25 French Writing Activities, French Writing Projects
January 2, 2019In this series on teaching French writing activities, we’ve already discussed using templates to model good writing, as well as the importance of French transition words to decrease choppiness. This post…
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How to Use French Writing Templates
January 2, 2019If your French students are writing short, choppy first-grade level sentences, try using French writing templates to dramatically improve and formalize their writing. If this is happening in your class, you’re…
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French Transition Words to Improve Writing
January 2, 2019In my last post about how to teach writing in French, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates for your lower-level language students. This next post will teach you…
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Spanish Transition Words to Improve Writing
December 12, 2018In my last post about how to teach writing in Spanish, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates and examples for your lower-level language students. This next post will…
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10 Reasons Why World Language Class Is the Best!
August 4, 2018Thought I’d write this fun post sharing how awesome it is that we get to teach French, Spanish, and a variety of other languages each day. Gym and lunch beware, we’re…
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How to Set the Tone during the First Week of French Class It’s always a challenge to figure out what to do for the first week of French class. You never…
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Adding Francophone Culture to French Class
January 11, 2018We all know that Francophone culture is an important part of learning French, but we often don’t spend as much time as we should teaching our students about the cultures of…
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French Lesson Plans for the Whole Year!
September 12, 2017Are you a newer teacher who could use some guidance and French lesson plans from a veteran teacher? Perhaps you teach multiple levels of French classes at once (3-5 preps). Do…
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How to Teach Spanish Numbers, French Numbers 1-20, 1-100, 1-1000 In Part 1 of teaching French, Spanish numbers, we discussed how to teach numbers 1-12. Today we’ll be focusing on numbers…
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French First Day Activities
August 26, 2017French First Day Activities How to Teach Using Immersion In my last post, I talked about why it’s so important to create an immersion atmosphere in your class during the first…