Teaching Vocabulary

Anticipatory Set
Students will watch two YouTube videos of “Le Petit Nicolas” movie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIRIFY9C7kg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mquUT7jCI

Procedure
1. Introduce the book “Le petit Nicolas” and the short story “Je suis malade”. (5 minutes)
2. Show YouTube video (anticipatory set) (4 minutes)
3. Complete anticipatory guide about new vocabulary (strategy # 2) (5 minutes) (Fisher, Brozo, Frey, Ivey, 2007)
4.Look at the title of the story and complete the directed reading-thinking form (strategy # 6) (5 minutes)
5. Group reading (5 minutes) (Fisher, Brozo, Frey, Ivey, 2007)
6. Look at the students’ directed reading-thinking form and see how their predictions were. (5 minutes)
7. Go over and copy down the vocabulary from the story (8 minutes)
8. Form groups of four and answer the questions listed at the end of the story (15 minutes)
9. Play a “Flashlight Vocab” game to revew vocabulary (Popcorn Review, strategy # 24) (8 minutes) (Fisher, Brozo, Frey, Ivey, 2007)
10. Formulate complete sentences using the learned vocabulary (10 minutes)
11. Closure: Complete Exit Slips (strategy # 8) (2 minutes) (Fisher, Brozo, Frey, Ivey, 2007)

As a homework, students will have to analyze this great website http://www.petitnicolas.com/ and we will discuss about it on my blog http://jazz-frenchintheclassroom.blogspot.com.