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Posted onMarch 8, 2023March 8, 2023 activities, Canva, featured, fles, lo-tech, vocabulary

The FLES Chronicles Part IV: My Fourth Week Teaching Elementary French

In my last three posts, I shared my plans from my first week of teaching elementary French once a week after school to 3rd through 5th […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 28, 2023February 28, 2023 activities, Canva, featured, fles, vocabulary

The FLES Chronicles, Part II: My Second Week Teaching Elementary French

In my last post, I shared my plans from my first week of teaching elementary French once a week after school to 3rd through 5th […] Read More

Posted onMay 10, 2022May 10, 2022 activities, Canva, featured, listening, vocabulary

Guessing Games in French Class

Guessing games can be a great way to practice language in an authentic context. Here are some of my favorite guessing game activities. Activity #1 […] Read More

Posted onApril 2, 2022April 2, 2022 featured, learning, listening, speaking, vocabulary

10 Ways to Convey Meaning Without Using English

While translation activities certainly have their place and can be useful in certain contexts, I still wherever possible try to design my lessons and activities […] Read More

Posted onMarch 19, 2022March 19, 2022 featured, Nearpod, vocabulary

Is It Logical? A Quick and Fun Way to Review Vocabulary

I’ve been doing variations of this activity for so long, I can’t even remember where I heard about it first, but I believe it was […] Read More

Posted onNovember 4, 2021March 18, 2022 activities, Canva, edtech, featured, games, listening, numbers, tech tools, technology, vocabulary

An Ode to Virtual Bingo

Bingo is an age old tradition in K-12 classrooms. Teachers have been using it for decades to review topics in a variety of subject areas. […] Read More

Posted onOctober 29, 2021October 29, 2021 activities, Canva, featured, vocabulary

Using MakeBeliefsComix to Create a Cloze Activity

Back in 2016, I blogged about how I had my students use MakeBeliefsComix to practice writing dialogues in French. Unfortunately, since then, MakeBeliefsComix has changed […] Read More

Posted onMarch 20, 2021July 10, 2021 Canva, collaborative PowerPoints, edtech, PowerPoint, vocabulary, Zoom, Zoom breakout rooms

Collaborative PowerPoints, Part III

This is my second post about using collaborative PowerPoints in class.  Click here to read my first post, where I discuss the basics of how […] Read More

Posted onApril 2, 2019 vocab, vocabulary

No Prep or Low Prep Ways to Work with New Vocabulary

In a rut and not sure what to do with a new group of vocabulary words you’ve been working with?  In this post I’ll share […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 25, 2017 activities, listening, vocabulary, writing

Les Parties du Corps

Parts of the body can be a difficult topic to make contextual.  With the right activities, though, it can be a lot of fun to […] Read More

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My name's Samantha Decker and I'm a middle school French teacher from Saratoga Springs, NY. I started The French Corner in high school as a resource for French students, and have since expanded it into a blog for French teachers. Read more about the blog here.

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