LEARNING HOW TO
READ… IN A
FRENCH IMMERSION
CLASSROOM USING
LA ROUE
THIS EVENING
• Introduction of Grade 1 teachers, Administration
and Learning Resource Teachers.
• Presentation – Learning How to Read in a French
Immersion Classroom Using La Roue.
• Classroom Presentations – Parents proceed to
their child’s classroom for La Roue explications
and demonstrations.
• « Les élèves inscrits à un programme d’immersion
française doivent, dès leurs premières années, faire
face à un double défi. Ils doivent non seulement
apprendre une autre langue, mais aussi apprendre
à maîtriser le processus de la lecture dans cette
langue. »
• Students enrolled in a French immersion program
must, in their early years, face a double challenge.
They must not only learn another language, but also
learn the process of reading in that language.
(translation)
Bournot-Trites, 2003.
THE ‘LA ROUE’ PROGRAM
• ‘La Roue’ is used by more than 3500
Francophone and French Immersion teachers
across Canada to teach how to read and write
in French.
• Regina Catholic School Kindergarten, Grade 1,
Grade 2 and Learning Resource teachers are
trained by Lise Larouche.
• La Roue is a phonological based reading
program.
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
• Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize that
words are made up of a variety of sound units (letters of the
alphabet).
• As a child develops phonological awareness he not only
comes to understand that words are made up of small
sound units (phonemes). He also learns that words can be
segmented into larger sound “chunks” known as syllables
and each syllable begin with a sound (onset) and ends with
another sound (rime).
• Phonological awareness provides the basis for phonics.
Phonics, the understanding that sounds and print letters are
connected, is the first step towards the act we call reading.
MY CHILD IS ‘NOT GETTING IT’
• Every student learns at their own pace.
• It’s ok that your child becomes frustrated and it’s
completely normal. However, if their frustrations begin
to impact their self-estime, please contact the teacher.
• At school, we work closely with our LRT’s to ensure the
early identification of students experiencing difficulties.
Early identification and early intervention have been
found to maximize response to intervention and to help
prevent reading difficulties altogether.
READING IN ENGLISH?
• In Grade 3, French Immersion students will begin
English Language Arts.
• Reading skills will transfer from one language to
another.
• Read to your child at home in English…or in your
native language!
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS