Description

Grade 6 Reading Textbook – La Boîte aux Lettres

The Grade 6 Method Presentation

This Grade 6 reading textbook is part of the “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection. 

“La Boîte aux Lettres” for Grade 6 is a comprehensive method for learning French. It is an extension of our methods from previous grades. The spirit, content, and pedagogical practices are thus reframed and extended. Our teaching methods emphasize oral expression. The latter is indeed the basis for learning to read and write.

The “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection for Grade 6 is based on the following methodological principles:

• Priority given to oral expression, with various sessions are devoted to it.
• Class projects to enable group work, interdisciplinarity, open-mindedness, and collaboration.
• Narrative reading texts and play extracts suited to children’s linguistic and psychological levels.
• Perfecting reading skills.
• Introduction to the internal organization of the texts.
• Presentation of injunctive-prescriptive, descriptive, and informative-explanatory texts.
• Perfecting writing skills through progressive lessons on the 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 6 Reading Textbook

This Grade 6 reading textbook from the “La Boîte aux Lettres” collection is divided into 10 themes. Each theme comprises two units. 

A) Each unit presents three activities:

1. Oral and written expression sessions. The activities proposed here precede and extend the reading text. You will find: 
   • An illustration that prepares students to read, with questions.
   • Pictures to help understand words and sentence structures.
   • An exercise for oral and written expression.
   • A lesson on expression techniques.
2. Another page presents a reading text. This text is accompanied by definitions and drawings that explain difficult words, as well as comprehension questions. You will also find activities that improve reading fluency and text organization skills.
3. A page dedicated to an informative or injunctive text with questions, or a comic strip.

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 phonics recordings.