Lectures du jour | Month 1 BUNDLE

Lectures de jour is a new series of readings intended for beginning language students. Each set provides one week (five days) of readings. One reading is provided for each weekday:

• Lundi des légendes: A legend from a Francophone country
• Mardi des merveilles: A natural wonder from a Francophone country
• Mercredi en musique: A song, genre, or artist from a Francophone country
• Jeudis joyeux: a non-fiction text about something interesting from the Francophone world
• Voyage vendredi: A destination (place or event) in a Francophone country

SEMAINE 1:

• Lundi des légendes: Le Mokélé-mbembé
• Mardi des merveilles: Les jardins de Marqueyssac
• Mercredi en musique: Céphaz
• Jeudis joyeux: Les sangliers en France
• Voyage vendredi: L’Île Sainte-Marie

SEMAINE 2:

• Lundi des légendes: La bête du Gévaudan
• Mardi des merveilles: Le lac rose de Sénégal
• Mercredi en musique: L’origine de la chanson Frère Jacques
• Jeudis joyeux: La Dictée géante
• Voyage vendredi: Carnaval d’hiver de Québec

SEMAINE 3:

• Lundi des légendes: Anta et Mamadou : un conte sénégalais
• Mardi des merveilles: Le Château Frontenac
• Mercredi en musique: Zaz, la chanteuse joyeuse
• Jeudis joyeux: Les salamandres de Corse
• Voyage vendredi: Le surf aux Jeux olympiques de 2024

SEMAINE 4:

• Lundi des légendes: L’Ankou
• Mardi des merveilles: Deux monuments romains : La Maison Carrée et le Pont du Gard
• Mercredi en musique: Aya Nakamura
• Jeudis joyeux: Les nombres qui aiment les maths
• Voyage vendredi: La Toussaint à travers le monde

The original intent of this set of resources was to create a resource that teachers could provide to their students as optional summer enrichment for interested students (so that they could read one page per day throughout their summer vacations), and they would make a great addition to a classroom library. If you have a Free Voluntary Reading program set up in your class, the readings are perfect for students to self-select at the designated time.

The most motivating kind of reading for is no-strings-attached reading, and for that reason we recommend that teachers allow students to read these texts without completing any follow-up reading activities. However, because we know that there are many instances in which teachers might need or prefer to assign a post-reading task (substitute activities, absent work, etc.), we have provided a one-page post-reading Smash Doodle® template for each text that students could use to summarize the information from each text or story. Click here to learn more about Smash Doodles® »

Other follow up activity ideas:

• Write and Discuss as a class
• having students create a Smashdoodle™
• Quiz Quiz Trade, where each students writes one question about one biography
• asking True/False questions about each figure using Pencil Grab
• allowing each student to pick a Textivities task to complete