Les lettres et les mots

In this video, I show you how to exercise your fingers so that they are less tense when writing and to make it more fluid. It is also important to hold your pen properly, so I give some advice. Finally, the body posture contributes to good writing: straight back, feet on the ground or a support.

The purpose of this video is to distinguish between the sentence and the line. I started by reminding you about the sentence: the sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. The line is a set of words that are written on a line.

This video discusses the different elements of the cover: the title, the illustration, the author, the illustrator, the publisher, the summary, the barcode. It is about acquiring vocabulary, but also about understanding the purpose of the cover and the information that appears on it. The cover protects the book, but also makes readers…

In this video, you will learn how to look up a word in a dictionary and, above all, how the dictionary is organized. The arrangement of words in alphabetical order, the reference words, the definitions, the examples, are all elements to master. It is not easy to propose a lesson on this theme without using the dictionary. I have…

This video aims to understand how most stories are structured. Children learn to structure their own stories according to the following pattern: initial situation, triggering or disturbing element, adventures, denouement, final situation. Not all stories have this structure, but many do.

In this video, students discover what an adjective is. The adjective is used to give details about the noun.

In this video, students will discover the concept of opposite. They will learn to find an antonym in a list of words. I also specify that the opposites must be of the same grammatical class. Like synonyms, this concept calls for a rich lexicon that must be completed regularly.

The purpose of this video is to understand what synonyms are. In general, students quickly understand the concept. What is more complicated is to enrich their vocabulary so as not to constantly repeat the same words. I also stress that synonyms must have the same grammatical class (noun = noun, verb = verb, etc.).

In this video, students learn to distinguish between sentence types: declarative sentence, interrogative sentence and imperative sentence. The declarative sentence is used to declare something, tell an event or give an opinion. It ends with a period. The interrogative sentence is used to ask a question and ends with a question mark…

The past tense expresses a specific action that took place and ended in the past. The aim is to understand how the past tense is formed. The past tense is a compound tense formed with the auxiliary to be or to have conjugated in the present and a past participle. The past participle of verbs conjugated with to be agrees in gender and…

Before getting into conjugation, it is important for students to be able to distinguish the words that indicate whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense. So, I show a few words to remember (formerly, yesterday, now, tomorrow, etc.) that I group together in a mental map. Exercises are used to check whether the concept…

The objective of this video is to be able to distinguish affirmative sentences from negative sentences and to be able to transform one into the other. An affirmative sentence is a sentence that expresses an affirmation, that says 'yes'. A negative sentence is used to deny, refuse or prohibit something. It is constructed by…

This video aims to distinguish the characteristics of a sentence. The sentence is a set of words and it has a meaning. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period. Children learn to identify capital letters and periods to count how many sentences there are in a text.

This video explains the difference between the literal and figurative meanings. The literal meaning is the primary meaning, the one that refers to the concrete, the real. The figurative meaning is the abstract, imagined meaning. Through numerous examples, children can distinguish between the two and remember them easily by imagining…