French Phonics Audio Digital Task Cards

I’d like to introduce a resource that will help you help your students improve: French phonics audio digital task cards.

For kids learning French as a second language, there are quite a few challenging aspects to mastering “la langue française”. Two of them are interconnected:

• learning and recognizing sounds, i.e. phonemes, that are very characteristic of French, such as /œ/ in œuf.
• being able to associate the sounds (phonemes) to the spelling (graphemes) of those sounds.

Allow me a quick refresher on two concepts so that you and I are on the same page.

1. Phoneme: essentially any sound, such as /ɲ/, /ʃ/, and others.
2. Grapheme: the way a sound is represented in writing, such as GN, CH, and others.

The phoneme-grapheme correspondence isn’t always 1-1.

So you might have one phoneme that can be represented by many graphemes. For example: phoneme /e/, which in French could be written as ER (parler), EZ (nez), É (élève), ET (et), and depending on your accent even as AI (maison).

You can also have one grapheme to represent different phonemes. For example: grapheme ER, which can sound as /e/ in aimer, but sound as /ɛ/ in mer.

French Phonics Audio Digital Task Cards

There are many ways to foster a deeper understanding of French phonics in your students.

You can, and should, offer lots of printed/printable material for your class to work with (see the phonics lapbooks)

However, there comes a time when they need to HEAR the sounds you’re teaching them and they should hear them coming from as many sources as possible–as opposed to only listening to YOU pronouncing the sounds…

With those factors in mind, I’ve set out to create a bundle of French phonics digital practice cards that will allow you to offer varied practice to your students.

1. Students listen to words that include the focus sound, then build the words with “magnetic letters”.

2. They also listen to three words, and choose the one that includes the focus sound. There are illustrations to support understanding.

3. Kids will read a word that include the focus sound. Next, they choose the image that represents that word. They can listen to the words as well.

4. Students need to sort words into two categories: words that include and words that don’t include the focus sound.

5. Finally, students get a chance to test their new vocabulary by listening to a word (including the focus sound), then matching the corresponding written word and image.

French Phonics Audio Digital Task Cards Bundle

This is a growing bundle, i.e. more cards will be included as I create them. The sooner you get your bundle, the better the deal you make because you lock in the price and get future updates free.

Currently, there are 115 decks of digital task cards (=1,749 Boom Cards) included in the bundle.

Every 5 decks focus on one grapheme.

So far, I’ve created cards for the following sounds:

• /o/ : O, AU, and EAU
• /ɲ/ : GN
• /ʃ/ : CH
• /u/ : OU
• /wa/ : OI
• /a/: A
• /ə/: E
• /i/: I
• /ɔ/: O
• /y/: U
• /e/: É
• /ɛ/: È
• /b/: B
• /d/: D
• /l/: L
• /m/: M
• /n/: N
• /p/: P
• /r/: R
• /v/: V
• /ɔ̃/: ON

You can watch one of the cards “in action” in the video below:

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In 2019 I’ll be adding more cards, but once you get the bundle, you lock in the price. In other words, after purchasing the bundle, future additions are free for you!

You can purchase this French Phonics Audio Task Cards Bundle on my TpT store or on the Boom Learning platform (the price is lower on Boom).

If you are my newsletter subscriber and you purchase the bundle, email me so I can add you to an updates list (you’ll be receiving email messages whenever I add cards to the bundle).

Any questions?

Leave me a comment below or email me.

Thank you so much for your time! Merci!

Lucy 🙂

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