madteaparty Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) Besides (because of?) the fact that there's a Henry Miller quote on the first page, I love how beautiful these textsbooks are. What I'm wondering about is pacing. Obviously we are not using it as intended, and further my own french is miserable (have the teacher book)but is it one little section at a time? There's "only" 10 chapters, but multiple subsections. Would love to hear how you use it. Thanks so much. Edited January 14, 2016 by madteaparty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 We're not, but it looks good and I will consider it for the future. Thanks! Here is a link to some threads form the neoprofs forum, perhaps something there will be of help. http://www.neoprofs.org/search?search_keywords=terre&search_where=f32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 We use it mostly as reading component. 10 chapters suggest a 4 weeks per chapter pace, according a 40 week school year. Dd reads x time per day and retells the story in Dutch. We use terre de lettres just for reading and we own from jardin des lettres also the workbook. I use that mostly for their writing prompts. Dd loves the stories in both books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) We use it mostly as reading component. 10 chapters suggest a 4 weeks per chapter pace, according a 40 week school year. Dd reads x time per day and retells the story in Dutch. We use terre de lettres just for reading and we own from jardin des lettres also the workbook. I use that mostly for their writing prompts. Dd loves the stories in both books. Thanks--the first chapter was poetry and that threw me.Do you speak french? I wonder how i correct the writing--i'm going to pay his tutor an extra session to do so I think. I'm doing this one in addition to what he does with the tutor, which is one chapter of the kiddie version of Count of Monte Cristo (and homework) per week. He also listens to audiobooks and reads indipendently 30 min per day Edited January 14, 2016 by madteaparty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Dh has the honour here to check french writings :) I don't know French wel enough. Dd loves the poetry in it. That's why I love the serie: I would have no clue how to find poetry by level :) I coach dd through C'est bien ca. A textbook used in adult education, but also used for selfstudy. Dh is once a week available to cover all the conversation exercises, So yes we work also 30 min. A day on french. If you have a kindle you can buy french books through www.amazon.com. Then you also get the french dictionary option, so that made reading french easier to dd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 I do have kindle and I did get a few french books but not sure how to turn the french dictionary on... I love having him read a book and listening to the same audiobook. Unfortunately with audible owned by Amazon, it seems most french books are either kindle or audible, but not both. It's ok, he listens to enough other french. Any favorite kindle books there? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I should ask dd, But if I recall it correctly, The first time we pushed on a french word, the french dictionary got loaded. Dd is reading books from comtesse de Segur. But I'm not sure it is fun for boys too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Any favorite kindle books there? I don't know if it is appropriate for you, but as an FYI, the Harry Potter series is available in French on kindle right now. It is, in fact, on kindle unlimited so I have been reading through them on my free month trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 You can get the Lemony Snickett books in French as well as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but not sure if you can get them in French from the .com store or only from the .fr store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 I don't know if it is appropriate for you, but as an FYI, the Harry Potter series is available in French on kindle right now. It is, in fact, on kindle unlimited so I have been reading through them on my free month trial.Thanks! We have the paper version (and the corresponding CD, which was so $$) for the first HP, but not the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Dd is reading books from comtesse de Segur. But I'm not sure it is fun for boys too... DS loved Comtesse de Segur books. His favorite was Un bon petit diable. I googled to make sure of the title and lo and behold! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 DS loved Comtesse de Segur books. His favorite was Un bon petit diable. I googled to make sure of the title and lo and behold! great find! i ordered the complete works on kindle for nothing. (only book i could find, but it includes the Bon Petit diable. Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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