Dictée (text from ANATS)
This is from my ANATS book for Loly who is working with dictée in her classes this week: Dictée: This is a powerful metacognitive tool that helps students attempt to match up the sounds of the language with what they can
Dictée – 3 Questions
Mila did her first dictée today and wanted to clarify a few points about the process: Q. How would you grade someone who copied the correct sentence but didn't circle their mistakes as instructed but corrected their mistakes with red pen? A.
Chain Dictée
For upper level kids as a fun break. Not intended for input gains, just some fun for kids who have a couple of years of language and who want a change in activities: 1. One student starts with Il y a 2.
Dictée Option – Russ Albright
Dictée is a tried and true bail out move. Getting the kids writing for about ten to minutes is a fail safe alternative if something we are doing isn't working. Searching the term dictée here is a good idea although some
Eat Up Some Minutes
This idea can get the students working in the three skills of reading, writing and listening all at once. It eats up minutes if you ever need that to happen. Level 1 kids obviously can't do it right now, but gnarly upper
Setting Up Dictée
This is just to mention a detail about setting up dictee, one of the spokes of our Invisibles Star. It's another great idea from Tina: When we start dictée (a few months into the year usually) it's hard to teach punctuation
Dictation Format
Heading into a tough part of the year, we need mental support tools. The classic French dictée format to teach writing and reading is a powerful tool indeed. I think of dictée as a nice complementary activity to stories. I
Pictée
Here is another idea, a repost from 2013, that maybe someone can use this year:
Dictée Class Story Option
For upper level kids as a fun break. Not intended for input gains, just some fun for kids who have at least a couple of years of language and who want a change in activities. This doesn't work with large
Pictado
Erin Bas gives a good definition of Pictado. The key sentence is in italics: It is just like a Dictado (Dictée - see the category), but the students listen and draw. Sometimes I have them number off six boxes, sometimes it’s