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Teaching French for Beginners
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Simon Fraser University’s Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs (OFFA), in partnership with Cowichan Valley, Saanich, Sooke, and Greater Victoria school districts, are pleased to share comprehensive beginner’s Core French unit plans designed by groups of teachers with self-assessed limited French skills. Each group of teacher unit designers started by exploring research in additional language acquisition and applied their learning to develop these units based on their expertise of teaching intermediate grade-level students.
These resources are created for elementary Core French teachers and can also be used by late French immersion and beginner’s secondary Core French teachers. They were designed to support teachers to feel confident in teaching the French language, no matter their own skills in French. The units can be used as a supplement to what is already working in their classroom, or as a starting point. Each unit and its contents can be downloaded and adapted to fit their needs.
OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT PLANS:
- Introduce, develop, and assess beginners’ French language skills
- Develop students’ confidence and love of French in a play-based literacy approach
- Build a foundation of basic French language skills so that high school teachers can continue to build upon them to further develop students’ proficiency
- Develop an appreciation for learning languages, specifically French
ON OUR WEBSITE, YOU CAN FIND:
- Each comprehensive unit plan for grades 5 to 7 (available as they are completed)
- Student “I can” criteria rubrics using strength-base proficiency language
- The French Sounds Support guide: A colour-coded guide to the French-only sounds that are used consistently in the unit plans, and are designed to support teacher and student communication and pronunciation
- Visual supports for the classroom: Posters that can be used to support what is being learned in class, including interrogative question structures and high frequency vocabulary
We invite you to click on Getting started to learn more about the free resources provided on this site.
About Shauna Néro
Shauna Néro is the French Programs Coordinator for Mission Public Schools and a French Education Consultant for Néro Consulting. Before these roles, she coordinated the Provincial Network for BC Administrators and Teachers of French Programs at Simon Fraser University's Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs (SFU-OFFA). Shauna has extensive teaching experience in Français langue, sciences humaines and Core French at the intermediate and secondary levels. She also teaches methodology courses at SFU for student teachers and was a Vice Principal of a dual-track French immersion elementary school.
Shauna holds a master’s degree in education on Teaching and Learning in French: Plurilingualism, Francophonies and Education from Simon Fraser University. Her practice applies a plurilingual and pluricultural approach within a Universal Design for Learning framework, and focuses on creating authentic, action-oriented learning experiences. Her goal is to help students develop both intercultural understanding and linguistic competencies in French.
These resources were made possible with the participation of Canadian Heritage and the Ministry of Education and Childcare of British Columbia.
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