How to stimulate students’ interest in French in primary school?

Arousing and maintaining students’ interest in French while teaching the concepts prescribed by the learning progression program (PDA) can be quite a challenge. To make your life easier, Alloprof offers you in this article five ideas to try with your students in order to diversify your teaching approaches:

As you know, a love of reading develops in a non-linear way: sometimes you have to try different literary genres and give several different books a chance until you find THE book that opens the door to the wonderful world of reading. In this sense, it can be interesting to focus on pleasure in the daily reading period in class. Here are some ideas to encourage students to explore various literary possibilities:

Make author circles

A dynamic wayto integrate writingin their daily French class can be the creation of authors’ circles. You can suggest to students, firstly, to write a text around a theme or according to a given literary genre, with constraints, for example. Secondly, form small teams (of three to five people) who will share their creations, comment on them and revise them. In this way, students develop their autonomy by learning from each other and pooling their strengths. As a bonus, this is an approach that integrates the three skills in French: speaking, writing and reading!

Play Magimot

To make learning vocabulary more fun, there’s nothing better than our bewitching gameMagimot! This educational video game offers students the opportunity to learn spelling words while having fun. You can even enter your lists of vocabulary words to review into the game and generate codes to give to your class. Students can also add their own word lists.

Did you know?

Did you know? You can use our handy codes to generate the vocabulary lists proposed by the Quebec education program. All you have to do is provide the code to the students and that’s it! These lists can be reused endlessly in our interactive vocabulary exercise. Download the vocabulary lists and codes here:

Energize lessons with videos

Forenergizethe educational experience of French when it comes to transmitting concepts, you can use the vast offer of videos produced by Alloprof. Here are some ideas of uses to explore:

The directory of French videos on ourYouTube channelis constantly growing! We therefore invite you to visit the site often to see what’s new.

Playing Grimoire

Improve yourreading skillscan be a whole lot of fun! Indeed, with our popular video gameGrimoire, students have fun discovering children’s literature texts by collecting resources to take care of a friendly little creature. The game involves reading short stories, then answering reading comprehension questions. Not only will your students want to go back, but you will also have one less task, because we take care of the correction!