Le garçon que joue des tours - ISBN: 978-1-926989-45-7

This highly anticipated, hot-off-the-presses kit is an alternate to Les trois petits cochons, the first 50-hour kit in Histoires en action ! 1. This kit is for students with no prior knowledge of French, but pushes students a little bit farther and faster than Les trois petits cochons.

Students are introduced to approximately 500 words. Present and passé composé forms of common verbs (regular and irregular), adjectival agreement, the formation of questions and the use of ne…pas are introduced.

KIT CONTAINS:

Big Book and Overheads/PowerPoint™ 

• Play with colour images in large print
• Available as either Big Books (11” x 17” format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)
• The play is also available on PowerPoint™

Whole-Class Activities Book Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Student Blackline Masters

• Gestured words from the vocabulary for this kit
• A wide variety of partner/group activities
• Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
• 100+ questions based on the story
• Creative storytelling activities
• Puppets
• Song and rap lyrics
• Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the kit

Partner/Group Activities Book: Student Blackline Masters Karen Oraas, M.Ed. and Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Posters and Image Cards

• Image cards of words not gestured
• Song and rap lyrics

Audio CD

• Songs (with instrumental versions)
• Fun Grammar Raps (with instrumental versions)
• Play
• Listening exercises / Assessment activities

CD-ROM

• PowerPoints™  of the play, songs and raps
• Written Activities
• Cards and activities in game format to accompany kits in the program
• Drama Resources
• Games
• Puppet images

Teacher DVD/Student DVD

• Gestured vocabulary for this kit
• Music videos featuring young Francophones
• The play gestured for this kit
• The play performed with TV series quality production
• A first class with AIM
• Overview of AIM Language Professional (Online training)

What is the AIM? DVD

Instructional DVD

• Detailed descriptions of the AIM in action
• Explanations on how to take AIM to the next level
• Classroom excerpts

La lecture en ACTION ! AIM Readers

L'aventure de Stephanie
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.
Blackline masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.

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AIM will donate 20% of the Jean-Michel – Acrobate reader sales to the Haitian relief fund on an on-going basis.

Jean-Michel – Acrobate
Story: Matt Maxwell
Illustrations: Jana Tublinshlak

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.
Blackline Masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.

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Choose our Balanced Literacy Packs with readers included alongside the AIM kit for an additional 20 hours of literary instruction.

Balanced Literacy Packs

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All of the popular fluency-building activities that are part of the AIM approach — Le garçon que joue des tours, Choisis le bon mot, Mets les mots en ordre, Les questions totales et partielles — are now available as SMART Board activities! New activities include: Songwriting; Activities that focus on thematic vocabulary; Dialogues among play characters; Alternative endings to the plays, and more!

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