I gave the group of students a list of French sight words for the first time and asked them to take a few minutes to see if they could figure out how to read some of them. We had a very interesting conversation so I decided to share it below!
Mme: So, have you been able to figure out any of the words?
Student 1: pointed to le and said: This is “Il”!
Mme: How did you know?
Student 1: I recognized the letter.
Mme: So you sounded it out?
Student 1: Yes
Mme: Does everyone agree this is Il? (pointing to le).
Student 2: I think it’s La and this (elle) is Il.
Student 3: No, this one is La! (pointing to la)
Mme: How do you know?
Student 3: Because llll...aaa.
Mme: Does everyone agree?
Everyone: Lll...aaa, la! Yes!
Mme: So are these two words the same? (Pointing to le and la).
Student 1: No, the ending is different.
Mme: What’s similar?
Student 4: They both start with the same letter but end with different ones.
Everyone agreed.
Mme: So, if the first sound is L, can this word (le) be Il?
Student 2, Student 3, Student 4: Noooo!
Student 1: Yes!
Mme: Let’s look at the first letter. What is the first sound?
Everyone: LLLL
Mme: And the next one?
Everyone: EEE (letter name), Leee!
Mme: That is the letter name. If you recall, the French sound is different from the English sound so we were focusing on the English one. What is it?
Everyone: e (short vowel sound)
Mme: I told some of you the French sound last week. Does anyone remember?
Student 2: e (French vowel sound)
Mme: So let’s blend the sounds together.
Everyone: L-e... Le!
Student 4: This one (elle) is Il!
Tia: I agree with Alyss.
Student 1: I do too!
Student 3: Me too!
Mme: That’s great. We will work on that next time for sure. For now, we know 2 of our French sight words - le and la! Le’ts see if we can find them in our French books!
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