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AIM Readers
**** AIM will donate 60% of the Jean-Michel – Acrobate reader sales to the Haitian relief fund until the end of February. ****
Level Overview & Cross-curricular Links for Readers
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Award-winning French-language teacher/author Jacqueline Kelly, multi-talented educator and songwriter Matt Maxwell, Wendy Maxwell, creator/author of the AIM, and David Cameron teamed-up to design a series of readers for core-french and immersion students that complement any FSL curriculum. These readers – designed for shared and guided reading – help students develop their language and literacy skills. All of the readers seamlessly incorporate cultural and thematic elements in their simple but captivating narratives. These stories emphasize the utmost importance of treating each other and the Earth with kindness and respect. Four of the new readers - Rozène, Un beau jour, Ali et la pluie and En vacances ! - are specifically geared for elementary and junior high students. Each reader is accompanied by a blackline-master book which contains over 40 language-manipulation activities that encourage higher-order thinking skills, and develop syntactical and morphological knowledge. These activities help students to learn to think creatively while they improve their oral and written fluency.
Discount information (any combination of titles):
• Five or more readers: 10% discount
• 20 or more readers: 15% discount
Please confirm discounts by phone: 1-800-668-6288
Readers for Elementary Students
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Story: Matt Maxwell This story takes place in Québec in the early 18th century. A family of pioneers are settling into rural life. One day the family goes off into the woods to pick berries. Seven-year-old André gets separated from his older sister and his parents. A young Huron boy finds him and returns him to his thankful family. Suitable for all elementary students with a basic fluency.
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AIM will donate 60% of the Jean-Michel – Acrobate reader sales to the Haitian relief fund until the end of February. Story: Matt Maxwell Jean-Michel is a 12-year-old boy who lives in the slums of Cap-Haïtien in Haïti. This talented young fellow uses his acrobatic skills to earn money with which he buys his mother a birthday present. This story can used as a point de départ for a whole range of activities, including ones that focus on Caribbean francophone culture, and on poverty and social-justice issues. As well as language-manipulation activities based on the story, the blackline masters contain a cultural unit and language activities about sports and athletics.
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Story: Matt Maxwell
Illustrations: Jana Tublinshlak Stéphanie is an 11-year-old girl who is a resident of a small town in northern Quebec. The town folk decide to put on a Festival du Voyageur. Stéphanie becomes bored with the cultural activities – the singing and dancing, the costumes, the sugaring off – and wanders down to the riverside, where she gets in one of the voyageurs’ canoes. The canoe gets caught in the rapids; only the heroic actions of a young villager save the day. Stéphanie comes away from her adventure infinitely more appreciative of the community of which she is a part. The blackline masters have many activities based on the story, and contain a cultural unit on the life of the voyageurs in Quebec, and activities based on a simple description of a North American river eco-system. |
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Story: Jacqueline Kelly
Illustrations: Jana Tublinshlak Manigan is a gentle giant and steward of the Earth who uses his bounty to aid those in need. He helps a couple of people who unfortunately take advantage of his kindness and eat up his stores of food. When the giant becomes weak, the couple realize that they have to give back to the one who has given them so much– they nurture Manigan back to health. This tale, which evokes First Nations wisdom, is a parable that reminds us of the need to treat our world with respect, and not just as something to be viewed as a resource for human consumption. As well as exercises based on the story, the blackline masters have a unit on pre-Columbian Mi’kmaq culture, and activities exploring ecological awareness and sustainability practices.
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Story: Jacqueline Kelly Illustrations: Jana Tubinshlak Prince Albert has been brought up in the lap of luxury. The more material goods he has, the less satisfied he feels; because of his greedy nature, he becomes known as Prince Veut-Tout. One day, while speeding on his motorbike, he almost runs over an old man; this event triggers a sense of remorse in him and causes him to re-evaluate his life. One night, looking up at the stars, Prince Albert decides to become a space explorer. He heads off into the heavens in his spaceship. Years later, he returns to his home with his new-found alien friends.
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Story: Jacqueline Kelly Illustrations: Adrien Deggan Simon is a somewhat peculiar boy who loves rain, snow, sleet and wind, and despises sunny, pleasant weather. One day he is swept up into the air by a ferocious hurricane. As he is flying through the sky, he notices a baby that has also been caught up in the wind. Risking his own safety, he rescues the child and returns him to his mother. He is heralded by the villagers as a hero. Simon le grincheux becomes Simon le généreux ! This book is written in verse.
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Readers for Junior High School Students
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Story: David Cameron
Translation: Wendy Maxwell Illustration: Jana Tubinshlak Ali lives in a North African village with his wife, Nadia. One day he decides to clean his water tank, a job that he has not done for ten years during which time his waistline has expanded considerably. His problems start when he has trouble fitting through the opening at the top of the tank; then he is attacked by mosquitoes and finally, when rain starts to fill the tank, he remembers that he does not know how to swim. Nadia has been practising her dance routine during this time so has not heard his cries for help, but eventually she arrives and rescues him from drowning.
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Story: David Cameron Translation: Wendy Maxwell Illustrations: Ian Fry Two teenagers, Marie and Pierre, met in the story En vacances ! during a trip to Martinique. We travel with them again through Europe in this story, Un beau jour. At the beginning of the story, Marie decides that she no longer wants to allow Pierre to make all the plans, and sets out on her own. The two decide to meet in Paris in a couple of days at the Arc de Triomphe. Unfortunately, neither Marie nor Pierre realizes that this day is not a good choice if you want to find someone in this location, as it is the celebration of Le jour de l'Armistice !
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Story: Wendy Maxwell
Illustrations: Ian Fry Two teenagers, Marie and her friend Suzanne, are on a trip from their home in Montréal to Martinique during their holiday. A series of amusing events take place after Marie bumps into a young man named Pierre at the airport. Marie’s initial reaction to Pierre is not very positive, nor does her second impression of him improve when he accidentally spills water on her during some turbulence on the plane. However, he redeems himself at the end of the story during a scuba-diving excursion. The blackline masters contain language manipulation activities that focus on vocabulary-building as well as grammar, appropriate to the junior high or beginning high school level. There is also a cultural unit on Martinique and a unit discussing the Caribbean rainforest ecosystem. Blackline Masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.
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Story: Wendy Maxwell
Illustrations: Ian Fry This is a traditional Iroquois story about a teenage girl named Rozéne from the Iroquois nation. Rozène daydreams of meeting a tall, young man who will sweep her off her feet. Although her family wants her to marry Orenda, the young man from her village who loves her very much, Rozène wants more. One day, a strong, well-dressed young man arrives at her house and offers to take her away from the village. This is a story about decisions that young people must face as they grow up. It is a story that contains elements of fantasy, adventure and romance, while also giving insight into First Nations culture.
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Story: Wendy Maxwell
Illustrations: Jana Tubinshlak The story begins the morning of a school field trip to the former sit of an Algonquin settlement near Ottawa. As a teenage girl named Renée is preparing to leave, she and her mother argue over her lack of responsability and Renée is frustrated by her mother's comments. Renée is not interested in this field trip and makes it very clear that she would rather be at the mall with her friends. During the field trip, Renée trips and falls in the forest. Suddenly things change and she finds herself among the Algonquins. is this real or just a dream? This story deals with relationships between adolescents and adults in our time and compares them with the relationships between people of different ages in native societies. Respect and awareness of the environment is another subject that is important in this story.
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Story: David Cameron
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