Step 2 - Un jour bizarre kit *2021 Edition

Step 2 - Un jour bizarre kit *2021 Edition

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Un jour bizarre kit *2021 Edition

Most appropriate for ages 9-12

This is a fun play containing numerous well-known fairy tale characters all in one story. A girl finds ways to help these characters with their different problems and then wakes up, realizing that it was all just a dream.

This is an alternate kit to the Comment y aller ?. Written by AIM teacher and workshop facilitator Sylvia Duckworth, this kit is based on an original fun, fantastical play about a young girl who finds herself in an enchanted forest. As she tries to make her way back home, the girl meets a variety of fairy tale characters. In this kit, students are doing more partner/group work. By the end of this kit, most students should be able to complete their own 10-page story extensions entirely in French.

Enhance your kit with the following extras:

Je m'appelle Christian- Reader

This book tells the true story of a young man, Christian, who has spent most of his life at St. Helene's orphanage in Haiti. Christian was born with many physical handicaps and his mother died when he was two years old. At the orphanage, he was surrounded with love and a great deal medical support, and nowadays he is a true inspiration to all who know him.

Story: Mary Anne Alton
Photos: Mary Anne Alton and Liz Lawne
Appropriate for ages: 12-Adult

Étienne Brûlé, premier Franco-Ontarien- Reader

Étienne Brûlé, a young Frenchman of the 16th century, decides to emigrate to New France. When he arrives at the 'habitation' of Québec, he soon learns the culture of the First Nations, and he trades with them under the orders of Samuel de Champlain. This story tells of his adventures in the region that is later to be named Ontario.

Story: Renée L. Villeneuve
Illustrations: Tom Nesbitt
Appropriate for ages: 10-15

Kit Content

In response to teacher feedback, our new edition kits have many new features... more technology, alignment with the CEFR, fully-described lesson plans.

The Whole-Class Activities Book and associated Blackline Masters or Student Book guide you and your students through implementing the core methodology. You are shown how to accelerate proficiency through a scaffolded, systematic approach so that students are able to engage in productive and interactive language activities.

Whole-Class Activities Book (Teacher’s Guide)

This book includes:

whole-class activities in five- to ten-minute segments,
classroom systems,
entry and leaving routines,
(Available in new edition kits only) 85-Lesson Overview that illustrates the intended flow of the activities in the Kit how to rotate through entry and leaving routines, how often to model each new activity, how to recycle vocabulary, when to introduce each partner/group activity and how long students typically spend in it and when to introduce the creative work with story - story retelling and extension,
assessment for learning blackline masters,
vocabulary lists,
game cards.

Partner/Group Activities Book (Blackline Masters)

Including the play, vocabulary list, language manipulation activities, simple and more complex questions based on the story, creative writing activities and words to the accompanying songs.

Student Workbooks are available as an additional purchase.
Student Digital Workbooks are available for 1:1 classrooms as an additional purchase.

Big Book (In younger aged kits)

For younger classes, shared reading with the Big Book is a very important AIM activity. You may also use the e-reader of this same book, projected from the Portal.

Program Guide

Overview of the Principles, strategies and techniques for successful implementation of the methodology with how it develops authentic proficiency through the levels stated in the CEFR.

Posters and Image Cards

Image cards of words not gestured
Hard-copy song and rap posters with lyrics. These also appear as projectable posters on the Portal

AIM Kit Portal (1-year subscription)

Portal

A one-year subscription of the Teacher Portal comes with the purchase of the Kit. Additional Student Portals can be purchased separately.

The Portal contains aspects of the content found in the Guides (videos, songs, e-readers, listening activities). Student digital workbooks available for the Portal as an additional purchase.

The songs (with instrumental versions)
Fun classroom raps (with instrumental versions)
E-reader of the story with highlighted text and audio
Gestured vocabulary for this kit
Music videos
The play gestured for this kit
The play performed by students in costume
An authentic first class with AIM
Additional Teacher Instructional Videos

Student Workbooks

A Student Book saves a lot of photocopying time and ensures that all student work is kept neatly in one place.

Available in both hard copy and digital format on the Portal for 1:1 classrooms.

Supplementary Resources

Once you have begun to use AIM, you might like to consider resources that will enhance your implementation of AIM:

Hard copy and digital e-readers

Dance videos

Teacher Training

Initial and ongoing teacher training is key to the successful implementation of AIM.

We recommend that teachers come to training at least every one to two years, and new ideas are introduced to help teachers move forward with AIM. We have many options for you, both In-Person and Virtual!

We Accept

We solve many of the challenges language teachers face.

The Gesture Approach

The AIM is a methodology that supports students by providing strategies and techniques that ensure student language acquisition and a high level of engagement. The Gesture Approach allows students to visualize, hear, say and 'feel' the language simultaneously, resulting in rapid proficiency development.

A Literacy- and Arts-Based Approach

Through the use of story and drama, songs, raps, and dances, students are moving to the language as they create meaning. Scaffolding and cooperative learning strategies help all students - the shy, weak, and strong - to find great support and success.

High-Frequency Vocabulary

One of the most important aspects of AIM that ensures student success is the high-frequency vocabulary (Pared-Down Language) that threads throughout every aspect of this methodology. AIM is designed such that each word is repeated extensively, allowing students to develop a strong foundation for language proficiency.

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