This French sounds cut and paste mini-book is hands-on and engaging for kids learning or reviewing French sounds and the way to spell those sounds.
Check out this fun addition to your French phonics instruction.
French Sounds Cut and Paste Mini-book
Your students will:
- improve vocabulary by naming pictures
- work on their pronunciation by sounding out the words to name the images
- use critical thinking to choose the images that do or don’t include the focus sound
- develop fine motor skills by cutting, pasting, and coloring the pictures
- work on writing the words
- establish and strengthen sound-spelling relationships
About the resource
There are more than 80 sounds/spellings in this resource and the reason I write “sounds/spellings” is because we sometimes can spell a sound different ways. For instance, we can write the sound /o/ as “au”, “eau”, and “o”.
So the first thing you might want to do is decide whether to create one long mini-book or several mini-books organized by sounds. The first alternative is probably better if your students already know sounds/spellings and are using this resource to review phonics. The second option is probably if you’re introducing sounds and don’t want to overwhelm your students.
Each page displays the spelling for a French sound, two empty boxes and three different images.
Students should name the images and, based on the sound they hear, decide which two out of the three images include the focus sound. Then, they paste the images on the boxes. Next, they write the words under the images.
You can say they are creating their own little visual dictionary of sounds!
Differentiation
Each page comes in three different versions so you can differentiate the activity. There are versions with:
- plain lines
- primary writing lines
- primary writing lines and dotted words
If your students don’t need guiding writing lines anymore and have a pretty good range of vocabulary (or are resourceful enough to find out words on their own or by working in pairs), use the first version.
In case they need to work on printing words correctly, use the second version.
If your students can’t actively name pictures, but are able to match written words to images, version 3 is the one you’re looking for.
You can have different students working on different versions at centers or stations. You could also scaffold by having students start out by using one version and moving on to using another version.
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!
You can use those images to have students:
- create 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 contain
- 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.
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Thank you for stopping by!
Lucy 🙂
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