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Phonics again!

It seems that I can upload using IE as my web browser but not firefox for some reason!  So, finally, something useful (I hope).

This first doc is a pdf of the Francophoniques - this is version 2.  I felt that the first version of these French phonics wasn't the best for two reasons. Firstly, some of the words and pictures didn't have any obvious and all important gestures and secondly, there were just too many of them and combining two sounds within each box was a bit confusing for learners. So, now there are still 3 x sets but they are smaller sets and all the words have a gesture. If you struggle to find a gesture for 'violet', some of my colleague's Y9 class mime putting on purple eyeshadow!  The other possibility for this one is changing the word to 'et' and having the mime as a plus sign, crossing two first fingers.
Download Francophoniques_ALL_Rha

This is the PowerPoint version of the same phonics.

Download Francophoniques_ALL_Rha

And here are the Spanish and German ones.  (Thank you as always to Leigh McClelland for the genius German ones)
Download German_pronunciation
Download Lesson1.1

Feedback on these is welcome as always!

Rachel

Phonics

Apologies for lack of recent activity on this blog!  I had some uploading problems that (I hope!) are now sorted out and I'm considering a different way of making these and more resources available in a better, more easily searchable way i.e. a website!  Whilst I consider how and when to sort this out, I've been in a bit of a stasis with the blog.

However, I've also been asked a lot recently for the phonics materials in French particulary, but also the Spanish and German (author: Leigh McClelland) ones.

So I'm putting these up in this post to make them a bit more visible.  (AAaaaaaaaaaaaagh!  Still not working - soooo frustrating and I have no time to sort this out!)  Ok, so to plan B.  I also have put all of the speaking resources that I've been talking about at various events and conferences onto an easy to access wiki page and so if you go there you can download them all really easily.

I'm also involved in some really exciting projects at the moment - a film-making project, a language on film project (using film in lessons project with some resources to download that have been trialled!), a regional spelling bee and our Language Leaders Award, which has been going for a long time, but now has support from Routes into Languages East (and the materials we use to set up and run that are here)

I have to say that all of this has been set up with the support of a phenomenal woman, Sarah Schechter, who works at Anglia Ruskin University and manages projects for Routes into Languages East.  I can't give her enough credit for all of these projects.  In addition, two colleagues in my department, Jane Driver and Leigh McClelland,  have been much of the inspiration and hard-work behind them too.

Hope that's useful - all for now.

Rachel