Description

Grade 5 Reading Textbook – La Boîte aux Lettres

The Grade 5 Method Presentation

This Grade 5 reading textbook is part of the “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection. 

“La Boîte aux Lettres” for Grade 5 is a comprehensive method for learning French. It builds on our methods from previous grades. The spirit, content, and pedagogical practices are thus reframed and extended. Our teaching methods emphasize oral expression, which forms the foundation for learning to read and write.

The “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection for Grade 5 is based on the following methodological principles:

• Priority given to oral expression.
• Class projects that enable group work, interdisciplinarity, open-mindedness, and collaboration.
• Narrative reading texts and play extracts suited to students’ linguistic and cognitive development.
• Further development of reading skills.
• Introduction to the internal organization of the texts.
• Studying the typology of a text: injunctive-prescriptive and informative texts.
• Development of writing skills through progressive lessons on different types of writing.
• Insistence on vocabulary enrichment in every unit.

The “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection for this Grade comprises the following three components: a reading textbook, an expression workbook, and a grammar workbook.

Grade 5 Reading Textbook

This Grade 5 reading textbook of the “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection is divided into 10 themes. Each theme comprises two units. 

A) Each unit presents three activities:

1. Two pages are devoted to oral expression. The activities provided here precede and extend the reading text. You will find: 

In each unit:

• • • An illustration that prepares students to read, with questions.
    • Pictures to help students understand vocabulary and sentence structures.
    • Role-play activities (dialogue).

Additionally, each theme provides:

1. • • A lesson on expression techniques.
     • An oral and written expression exercise.
       
2. Two other pages present a reading text. This text is accompanied by drawings that illustrate difficult words and comprehension questions. You will also find activities that improve reading fluency and text organization skills. In even-numbered units, the text is three pages long.
3. A page is devoted to an informative or injunctive text with questions. An activity often follows this section.

B) Other activities are presented alternately:

1. A vocabulary lesson to introduce words of the same family, synonyms, homonyms, etc.
2. A phonics section designed to review phonemes and graphemes.

Also, each theme of the reading textbook concludes with poems.

Finally, a QR code is printed on the first page of the textbook. Children can thus listen to:

• Role-play activities.
• Phonics.