French Immersion

 

French Immersion Indigenous Content

Indigenous Story Books

Leveled stories available in English, French and central Canadian indigenous languages.

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Footprints in Stone (local history)

Local Dakelh history available in English, French and Dakelh languages.

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Indigenous Education

Éducation Autochtone (Centre National de Collaboration) hosts a repository of  lesson and unit plans.

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Dakelh Language Posters

Posters and sound files covering these themes: colours, greetings, conversational phrases, alphabet, feelings, days of the week, months of the year and seasons.

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Métis Resources

Virtual Museum of Metis History & Culture

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Learn about Métis culture and language (Michif) - with many French-influenced words!

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Listen to samples of Michif language

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Residential Schools

Historica Canada - article, video and printables on residential school experience

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BCTF Project of the Heart: Resource to inform educators about Residential school experience

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Gr 8+ Orange Shirt day (Bâtir des Ponts) - series of lessons to support truth & reconciliation.

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Truth & Reconciliation resources for K-12

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Orange Shirt Day French lesson plans for K-7

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Resource Commons

Idéllo

Video and lesson plan resources for K-12 all subject areas.

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Live it Earth

Bilingual STEM rich video and interactive resource with archived monthly themes.

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Encyclopédie Découverte

French version of World Book kids encyclopedia.

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Twig

Gr 6-9 science resource with Science and Math audiovisuals & rich collection of lesson plans.  Many videos are available in French.

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Brain POP

Videos and post-viewing activities for students on a wide range of topics.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access.

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Learn360

Searchable video material and teacher resources with filters by grade level and subject.  Filter by language to get French content material.

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Unit & Lesson Plans

Locally developed units & lesson plans, for use with SMART Notebook software

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French literacy (FRAL/ Littératie)

Phonemic awareness

French phonics explanation and videos by lette

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High frequency word list

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Lalilo is an online learning app for students to learn phonemes and graphemes

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Language Tools

Online French-English dictionary and verb conjugator

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Visual dictionary

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Grammar and spell checking app.

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Digital Books

RK Publishing Je Lis online with levelled books for grades K-6.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access.

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54 illustrated books for kids.  Interactive platform with games and activities, free with our access to Idéllo.

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Read-aloud fairy tales in French or English.

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Tumble books access (click on Tumble Books link and choose French language).

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Read aloud storybooks relating to African themes.

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Over 1000 read-aloud stories

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Daily café

How to build confidence with French literacy (C.A.F.É.)

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Writing

BC Ministry of Education Writing Performance Standards/ Normes de performance en écriture

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Grammar lessons as video lessons and printables or online activities.

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Réal de Montréal provides French phonemic building exercises as printable activities

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Verb conjugation worksheet generator

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Electronic pen pal forum, for opportunities for students and classes to connect with other francophone students

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Question word prompts to stimulate writing.

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Oral Skill Development

Francolab provides video content and comprehension activities to support upper intermediate and secondary oral skills.

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Francolab Junior provides video content and comprehension activities to support elementary student oral skills.

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Unit Planning

Learn 71 classroom ready resources for K-7 French Immersion (FRAL)

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Support materials and worksheets for a variety of subject areas including grammar and French literacy.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access information.

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ADST (CCPT - Conception, Compétences Pratiques et Technologies)

Typing Apps

Tap Touche/ Typing Club

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Typing Club

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Agile Fingers app

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Coding

Scratch - bilingual coding app with translation and text-to-speech options

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Teacher’s guide for Scratch to create a French story using code.

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Canada Learning Code French version

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Computational learning with Code Club

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Design Thinking

Design thinking resource folder

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Digital Literacy

Kids in the know/ Enfants avertis - Digital literacy resources for students

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French version of Media Smarts (Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy)

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Other useful links for digital literacy and citizenship resources

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Cooking

French illustrated recipes

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Health/ PE (Santé et Éducation Physique)

Social-emotional learning (SEL)

Idéllo S.E.L. theme playlist

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Resource shared from Vancouver School District

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Resources for emotional well-being and mental health teaching

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Wellness website from Conseil Jeunesse Francophone

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Movement videos

Action and meditation (calming) videos

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Sexual health education

Alberta-based bilingual teaching resource for K-9 with lesson plans, interactives and quiz games (Kahoot)

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Sciences humaines/ Social Studies

Current Events

Current events website for kids from France

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Access to beginner and intermediate level French periodicals

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CBC (Radio Canada) current event videos for kids and teens

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News in slow French, with the ability to adjust the speed of the broadcast.

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Magazines

French flipbooks for primary (Minimag), intermediates (Mon Mag à Moi) and teens (Quad9)

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Access to beginner and intermediate level French periodicals

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Unit Planning

Learn71 includes lesson and unit plans (K-7)

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Access to Modulo Sciences Humaines (K-7 Social Studies Resource).

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Sciences

Unit Planning

Learn71 includes lesson and unit plans (K-7)

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Access to Modulo Sciences (K-7) Resource

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Bilingual STEM rich video and interactive resource with archived monthly themes.

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Video Resources

Video and lesson plan resources for K-12 all subject areas.

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Gr 6-9 science resource with Science and Math audiovisuals & rich collection of lesson plans.  Many videos are available in French.  For more details see https://francaisformidable.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/9/7/27977917/twigfrenchfilmlist.pdf

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Videos and post-viewing activities for students on a wide range of topics.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access.

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Mathématiques/ Math

Unit Planning

Learn71 math lessons grouped by big idea (K-7)

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Mathologie (K-6) math resource.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access information.

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Idéllo has videos and teacher guides to support instruction of math concepts.

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Brain POP animated videos and post-viewing activities.  Contact kevinsturt@sd28.bc.ca for access information.

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Logiciel - math activities and printables

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Maths Libres - printable math worksheets

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Tools

Mathigon virtual manipulatives

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Math word wall - French-English math dictionary

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Assessment

SD33: SNAP (Student Numeracy & Assessment) has templates and exemplars to support demonstration of math proficiency.

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Challenges & Activities

Math challenges and videos for primary or secondary students.

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Financial Literacy

Financial literacy lessons and units, with option to have resource materials in French.

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Indigenous Math

The Math Catcher Outreach Program created a series of stories with mathematical themes based on the storytelling tradition of Indigenous peoples. Most of the stories have been translated into several Indigenous languages as well as French.

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Math Games

Online math game app for primary and early intermediate students.

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Online activities to support various math concepts

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