This set of two French sounds cut and paste mini-books is hands-on and engaging for kids learning or reviewing French phonics and the way to spell sounds.
If you’ve adopted the Science of Reading in your French Immersion or Core French classroom, you’ll like this phonics activity.
Check out this printable addition to your “science de la lecture” toolkit!
French Sounds Cut and Paste Activity Mini-books
There are two versions of the minibooks:
- one for decoding/blending practice
- another one for encoding (spelling/writing) practice
ACTIVITY 1: decode, blend, read, and choose the corresponding image
There are two words and three images per page. Students touch the dots under each grapheme as they sound them out. Then, students blend the sounds together, and read the words. Next, they cut and paste the images corresponding to the words. One of the images will not be used!
NOTE: A few pages will only have two images.
ACTIVITY 2: encoding (writing) practice – say the word, write the word, one grapheme per box
There are two images per page. Students need to say the word that the images represent. Then, students write the words, one sound per box.
The box for the focus sound is gray. The other boxes are white.
Silent letters are already on the page and they’re light gray.
Your students will:
- improve vocabulary by naming pictures
- work on their pronunciation by sounding out the words to name the images
- develop fine motor skills by cutting, pasting, and coloring the pictures
- work on decoding and encoding the words
- establish and strengthen sound-spelling relationships
❤️ Your students will love working with these minibooks because it’s a very hands-on activity. They’ll be practicing a lot of skills that are so important for their phonological and phonemic awareness so that they’ll know their French sounds better!
About these French Sounds Cut and Paste Minibooks
- Each minibook has one half-page for each sound (phoneme).
- There are pages for the 36 sounds of the French language, plus pages for complex sounds, such as oi, ui, ail, eil, ille, euil, ouille, oin, ien, ion, oir, r-blends, l-blends, and more!
- BW only
- Non-editable
Here’s what teachers have said about this resource:
This was perfect for pre-reading for both my Core French kiddos and my grade 2’s in immersion. They loved using these to review sounds and would glue them into a scrap book to refer back to. These were wonderful for supporting phonics instruction in French!” – Jessica L.
J’adore utiliser le mapping orthographique avec mes élèves. Ils ont tellement amélioré leur écriture à cause de ceci. J’ai adoré cette ressource et les élèves l’ont bien aimé aussi. – Francine T.
This is an amazing tool for students to practice the specific sounds. Once we complete one sound I use it in my small groups for students to continue to read. Students also use them to practice on their own. – Kyla J.
Extension
Once pages are completed, there are ways to extend the activity and get the most out of your minibooks:
- Use the back of the pages to have students list more words that include the same sound. They may or may not illustrate the words
- Have students write sentences that include the words that were cut and pasted
Now you might be wondering: what do we do with the unused images?
That’s a great question and the first thing I want to say is: don’t throw them away because the images also include the target sound!
You can use those images to have students:
- Create sentences, or write stories by selecting 2-4 images, pasting them on a notebook, and writing their narratives about the illustrations
- Practice French sounds further by having them paste the unused images on a notebook and writing down the sounds the words include
- Practice ABC order by randomly selecting 3-5 images and pasting them on a notebook in alphabetical order
These are a few ideas, but feel free to come up with your own.
Click on any of the images to check out this French Sounds Cut and Paste Activity Minibook on TpT!
Thank you for stopping by!
Lucy 🙂
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