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 Teaching in a Late French Immersion classroom has truly taught me the value of having a word wall.  I teach in a school where I don't have my own classroom space due to shortage of spaces.  Instead, we share our classroom spaces with other teachers.  I mostly teach French Language Arts in one classroom on the 3rd floor.  This is where I have set up my word wall.  I am very grateful for having a supportive teacher in that space to let me take up a fair chunk of the white board for it! A word wall is powerful because it provides students with vocabulary they are learning.  It helps them associate words with images if you use pictures with your words (as shown above).  Having a word wall also helps improve word recognition for students.  We have been using words in class that we have learned in September that students still recall without seeing on our word wall anymore.   If you are like me and are tight on time, I would strongly rec...

  I recently completed an online course offered by Parfaitement Parnell on TpT.  I found it very useful and loved the fact that she included a workbook and course resources to refer back to in my writing program.  I am currently teaching grade 6 Late French Immersion.  They began their journey in learning French for the first time in September.  Because of their limited vocabulary, our primary focus over the past few months has been developing vocab knowledge and working on sound blend recognition.  We have played several games and used repetition to help reinforce these new concepts. My students are now writing sentences based on vocabulary they already know.  Every week, I will post a paragraph in English for them to translate into French and evaluate them on their understanding of the words they have learned.  I also evaluate them on their conventions (punctuation, capitalization) and how much content they can write.  Tia's course on Writ...