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KitQC2 en Francais
KitQC2
Helping Kids
This section is short. KitQC2 was made to help adults. Here are a few good tips for helping your kids learn French.
The one thing that you won’t find used anywhere except Japan (as far as I know) is a tracing sheet. This is a wonderful way to help kids learn how to write faster and better. French also has accented characters.
A tracing sheet helps kids learn the physical coordination needed to write well. It also provides a bridge between the stage where you can’t write anything in French and the stage when you are able to write your own texts in French. It can also help adults.
Tracing sheets work great for everyone and all languages.
How to make a tracing sheet:
1) Go on the Internet and find an interesting text in French (optional : with pictures).
2) Copy a couple of short sentences from the browser window into a word processing program. (Example : to copy this sentence just select the text with your mouse and use Ctrl-C to copy it).
3) After you have pasted the text into your word processor : clean it up, Select All and set the text color to a light gray color. Make the font larger and use a nice font (Comic Sans MS is pretty good).
4) Print out your text. Let the kid write over the words with colored pencils. When they are done, file the text in a binder or an envelope.
This tracing sheet exercise, if started early, will help your kid in every single area of study at school because they will have the physical skill of writing well. It can also help kids in later grades that write poorly.
Another idea : Kids like to work together with adults on the computer. So you might try sitting down, moving the keyboard to one side and doing the learning exercises using colored pencils. If the kid is too young to write along with you, perhaps they would like to make little drawings about what you are studying.
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