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Chaperon rouge

Marc le magicien

Rap

This three-kit bundle brings together three kits/plays for the price of two, providing
'Veux-tu aller du Carnaval ?', 'Marc le megicien', and 'Chaperon Rouge' - over 150 hours of classroom instruction!

This Kit includes 3 different plays:

• Veux-tu aller du Carnaval ?
• Marc le megicien
• Chaperon Rouge

KIT CONTAINS:

Program Guide

• Essential to understanding how the program works
• Student outcomes based on the Multidimensional Curriculum, Multiple Intelligence Theory, Bloom's Taxonomy and Learning Styles
• Resources
• Language taught in story units
• Classroom systems, routines, management and organization
• Strategies for effective implementation of the program
• Evaluation
• Brain-based research to support the implementation of Histoires en action!

Whole-class Activities Book

• Detailed guide with lesson plans for each unit
• Description of student outcomes based on the Multidimensional Curriculum and Multiple Intelligences theory
• Classroom systems and linguistic routines for each unit• How to adapt the unit according to time variances (20-, 30-, 40- minute classes)
• Evaluation blackline masters (self, teacher, peer, parent)
• Sample letters to parents
• Play in booklet format
• Game cards
• Complete vocabulary list

Overhead and PowerPoint

• Play with colour images in large print
• Available as either Big Books (11" x 17" format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)

Student workbook/ Blackline Masters

• Blackline master format
• Gestured words learned from the vocabulary for that unit from DVD
• A wide variety of activities that may be used in partner or individual work, depending on the level of the unit
• Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
• 100+ questions based on the story
• Creative storytelling activities
• Puppets
• Song lyrics
• Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the unit

Student Language Reference Book
Mon livre de mots, a language reference booklet containing the vocabulary in alphabetical order, with space for additional personalized entries.

Posters and Image Cards

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

CD

• CD, containing the three or more songs, plus instrumental versions of those songs for performances, if desired

Additional resources

• Games
• Cards and activities in game format to accompany units in the program
• Drama Resources
• Paper puppets on blackline master, found in student book

DVDs
DVD for each unit, containing:

• Gesture Approach vocabulary
• The play gestured for each story unit
• The play performed for each unit
• Sample questions gestured for each play
• Accompanying dance for each story unit performed by students
• Play performed by students
• Gesture associations
• How to teach grammar concepts through gesture?(e.g. double verb constructions,error correction, le passé, in process grammar through story writing, and story retteling, etc.)
• Students demonstrating story retelling and Creative Improvisational Storytelling
• Excerpts of classroom activities using the Gesture Approach

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

CD-ROM

• CD-ROM with letters to parents, cards, etc.

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	SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
	Gesture Database Ever wanted to know what a particular gesture is, but have not known where to locate it on your teacher DVD? Well now your problems are solved. With the Gesture Database DVD-ROM, you can look up a gesture by keying in the word or phrase, and Wendy pops up on your computer screen performing the gesture CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
	Classroom Raps CD This features over a dozen raps designed specifically for AIM students and teachers. These include raps for starting and ending partner/group work, starting and finishing class, story retelling, collecting folders, etc.