Looking for ways to hit different learning objectives at the same time? Check out this French professions reading comprehension activity so you can integrate literacy, social studies and fine motor skills practice!
French Professions Reading Comprehension: Les métiers
True reading comprehension comprises two things: understanding what is in the text and also what is not.
Students should be paying attention to words in context and the meaning of the text, and they should be able to answer comprehension questions as well.
If we can help them improve reading fluency, that’s a plus!
These French Professions Reading Comprehension Worksheets will make your students:
- work on recognizing and using high-frequency vocabulary in context. They’ll be cutting and pasting high-frequency words to fill in the blanks in the text.
- use critical thinking to decide which words to use to fill each blank.
- read the text closely to answer multiple choice questions. They have to go back to the text in order to answer the questions.
- improve reading fluency by reading the text multiple times. They’ll be coloring one circle at a time for each complete reading they do, preferably out loud (by themselves or to a partner).
- work on fine motor skills by cutting, pasting, and coloring.
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This French “les métiers” set includes 15 texts in 2 differentiated versions each. One of the versions is slightly more difficult so you can differentiate the activity.
Each text focuses on a different profession and I made sure to (try to) not encourage stereotypes, so there’s a female computer developer, for example.
To be clear, the texts are NOT about the professions. In other words, the texts are not introductory pieces about what each professional does. The texts are about individual people and what they do for a living.
It’s a great addition to your “Les métiers” unit, but it will NOT substitute it.
The texts are about:
- Arlette, l’architecte
- Bernard, le bibliothécaire
- Astrid, l’astronaute
- Paul, le pompier
- Chantal, la chimiste
- Philippe, le photographe
- Pénélope, la peintre
- Vincent, le vétérinaire
- Danielle, la dentiste
- Marco, le médécin
- Paula, la policière
- Fabrice, le facteur
- Denise, la développeuse
- Pierre, le pilote (d’avion)
- Solange et Samuel, les soldats
These sheets are great for literacy centers and even for guided reading.
Not sure how your students would like them?
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Merci!
Lucy 🙂
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