1. Primary MFL Network meeting
15th October 2014

2. To start with….
La Première Guerre mondiale

3. Agenda for the meeting
What is happening around the schools? What materials are being used? Support from secondaries, peripatetic teaching? Programmes used?
Some material recommendation for the classroom: Niveau Bleu/SHSG Scheme of Work/Sunderland SoW/A cross curricular project/Teaching through a story.
Teaching focus: helping vocabulary learning and vocabulary accuracy in writing

4. Free materials available
Niveau Bleu – Institut Français/Catherine Cheater
Lesson 1 ppt lesson 1 plan
MFL Sunderland – All resources, designed by a Primary practitioner (Clare Seccombe)
SHSG Scheme of Work – 2007, linear, still relevant in methodology.

5. Other approaches
Teaching around a story: the book, looking at content, retelling, story making, mini books.
Le navet énorme
Bon appétit, Monsieur Lapin
Agghh une araignée!
Cross curricular teaching:
The Victorians
The Egyptians
Volcanoes
The water cycle
The plant cycle

6. Focus: teaching vocabulary for oral accuracy
Phonics, repetition, clarity, drilling words through a variety of activities and games
Flashcards games (repeat if true, slow reveal, memory list, pelmanism)
Hide and seek: repeat a word or sentence loud or soft.
Putting words in raps, sounds, clapping words
Take 10 Phonics

7. Teaching vocabulary for written accuracy
Writing in the air
Writing on each other’s back
Looking at shape of words
Give out letters: can the group write
the word? Have they got letters missing?
Alphabet based activities:
teacher spells out a word, children write it on a mini whiteboard.
Le pendu (hangman)
All around colours

8. j--n- ver- -i-l-t rmoarn rtuqisoe Using French words for handwriting
Alternate letters missing/vowels missing/silent letters missing
Anagrams
Word search
Crosswords
Inventing a mnemonic or rhyme to remember difficult spellings! jaune
j--n-
ver-
-i-l-t
rmoarn
rtuqisoe
Just accept unicorns need elephants

9. Teaching the phoneme/grapheme links
Sound dominoes
Sound lotto: le loto des sons
List of words: pick out the correct grapheme
Dictation of words with patterns
Working on high frequency words

10. Alphabet support
Florabelle, l’alphabet en chantant
Vincent la grenouille dit l’alphabet
Comptine de l’alphabet
L’alphabet avec Alain Le Lait
Chantez plus fort! [Brilliant Publications – ]
Français!Français! [The Language Factory – ]
Singing French [A&C Black – ]
Cha cha cha [ ]