Time for another round of French anchor charts and the ones today are both interactive.
These are Halloween-themed, but you can adapt them to use in your classroom year-round.
French Anchor Charts for Halloween
L’araignée: to activate prior knowledge and practice writing short sentences.
Read: FREE Halloween Mini-book
Steps to create and use this French anchor chart in your French classroom:
- Write the title “l’araignée” at the top of the chart. You can ask students to spell the word for you because “you don’t remember the spelling.”
- Draw a spider. It doesn’t matter if you can or can’t draw as long as you add eight legs 🙂
- Ask students to come up with verbs that you can use to talk about spiders. Write eight verbs on the chart, one at the end of each leg. You can use different colors as well and have different students write the verbs on the chart instead of you doing it. The verbs can already be conjugated (as in the picture).
- Ask students (or pairs of students) to write sentences about the spider using the verbs, e.g. “(l’araignée) est noire”. As they write the sentences down on their notebooks, go around the classroom suggesting corrections and helping them organize their sentences better.
- Tell students to choose one of the sentences they wrote, ask them to write it on post-its, and have them attach the post-its to the chart.
To make it more challenging you can write the verbs in the infinitive form, so students need to conjugate them as they write their sentences. You can also title the chart “les araignées” in the plural so they need to conjugate the verbs in the third person of the plural form.
La sorcière: to assess previous knowledge of vocabulary (nouns and adjectives)
Steps to create and use this French anchor chart in your French classroom:
- Write the title “la sorcière” at the top of the chart. Draw a witch or print a picture or piece of clipart just like I did for the chart above.
- You can use it two ways: for beginners, have them label the picture by writing nouns on post-its and attaching them to the right place (image above). For intermediate students, have them write adjectives that can be used to describe witches and attaching them around the witch.
- Now for some speaking practice, have students create sentences using the nouns or adjectives on the chart.
- Extension activities: (1) after the speaking practice, remove the post-its from the chart, and dictate the words for students to write them down on their notebooks; (2) remove the post-its from the chart, and tell students to write down as many words as they remember; (3) remove the post-its from the chart, have one student stand up and approach you. Show the student one of the words. She or he will have to explain the word for the rest of the class to guess what it is. When they do, it’s another student’s turn to explain a word.
Read: French Halloween Lapbook (on my other blog)
For other times of the year, all you have to do is change the main character: a penguin or a reindeer for winter; a butterfly or a bird for spring; a jellyfish or an octopus for summer. Choose the characters according to the season, a holiday, or even a character in a book the class is reading.
French anchor charts are great tools to support students’ understanding and learning and the best part is that you don’t need much to create them.
You can start using them tomorrow – all you need is paper and markers!
I’d love to hear how you use French anchor charts in your classroom. Stop by my FB page “For French Immersion” and leave me your comment.
Thank you for reading!
Lucy 🙂
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