Have You Signed up for the #FSLGRA But?

I acknowledge that we educators have loads on our plates for the present college yr, in the intervening time. Educators are adjusting to being out of the college buildings unexpectedly. Some are planning and operating synchonous studying, whereas others are attempting to determine what off-line studying alternatives we will prolong to our college students – and in lots of instances, to our personal kids. However sooner or later, this WILL finish – or on the very least, it would change. Extra common programming will resume, and even when that appears completely different  that what it was like earlier than, routines will get reestablished. 

Here is my plug so that you can plan forward a bit, amidst all this chaos. The French as a Second Language International Learn Aloud accepted nominations of nice francophone books, from easy image books to novels (ideally below 200 pages!) as much as the top of March. Voting is occurring RIGHT NOW. 


A little bit of thought now, and a few collaborative open-source fashion planning later on this college yr,  over the summer season, and even into the early fall can result in a superb interactive and genuine experiential studying alternative on your personal college students and lots of different courses stuffed with FSL college students subsequent fall! For extra details about the #FSLGRA, learn this in English or this model en français.

My tip is to not consider  the GRA as an “add on” to your current curriculum, however to consider which points of the curriculum you may be addressing by means of the GRA, and simply let that studying occur. It is alright to not do the identical issues your would usually do yr after yr. New experiences will likely be nice each for you, and for the scholars. Mannequin risk-taking and pushing oneself out of 1’s consolation zone together with your college students. In the event you’re questioning what sort of ebook makes nomination, take into consideration the next:

• Is the language degree acceptable and accessible (with trainer help) for a French language learner, on the degree you bear in mind?

• Is the subject participating for the grade ranges you bear in mind?

• Are there any curricular and topical connections that you just and different academics might exploit for enhanced studying (please assume past simply grammar & vocabulary, however in fact these might have a task as effectively)?

• Is it fairly inexpensive? (For instance, for the first grade ranges, it typically is smart to pick a number of image books. These which are priced nearer to $10-15 are a greater possibility than these within the $30 worth vary, since we acknowledge that many academics purchase these books out of their very own pockets. Even once they do not college budgets are typically stretched to start with.)

• Is it available? Ideally, if it may be bought from greater than a single supply, this works out greatest in order that academics shopping for only for the FSLGRA do not exhaust the availability, leaving others stranded and unable to take part)

• Is it pretty lately revealed? That is necessary each for availability – we can’t choose one thing that’s out of print – and for problems with cultural appropriateness in lots of instances.

• Is it written in French? This is not an absolute deal-breaker, however it’s very a lot a fascinating high quality, particularly for increased grades the place college students is likely to be tempted to entry the ebook in English, or have already learn it in English, and thereby diminish the expertise considerably. 

New to instructing French as a Second Language and never overly assured of your skill to advocate preferrred books but? Tha’s okay. You may nonetheless join right here, and are available alongside for the experience, with no matter grade & programme you occur to be delivering subsequent yr. We go reside for our third yr on October 19, 2020.

Save the Date for the 2020-2021 French as a Second Language International Learn Aloud

In the event you’re searching for extra details about what kinds of studying experiences you would possibly supply to your college students by means of this initiative, you possibly can both discover the hashtags (defined within the introductory weblog, linked above) in social media, or try our Google Sheets for the previous two years. They listing lots of the concepts and assets created, sourced, and shared by our teacher-participants. 


Be sure you discover that there are FOUR tabs alongside the underside of every file, as a way to discover the degrees of the FSLGRA which are most related for you. And bear in mind – many arms, lighter work!  Please share no matter concepts and assets you make which are related. These assets keep accessible for academics to discover with a single accomplice if they want, and even on their very own with their courses as they see match at instances exterior of the official FSLGRA timelines.

Normal timelines of the #FSLGRA planning & exercise cycle