Description
Want a fun and festive way to improve French reading comprehension with your core French and French immersion students? These 10 French reading passages are the perfect way to help your beginning students read more. Each holiday-themed French reading activity includes 3 versions of the student question sheets.
Your students will love reading these French texts as a way to enrich their French vocabulary about holidays. These differentiated activities will make your job so much easier, because you’ll use the same text with all students but you can provide them with just the right level of questions so all students are challenged!
Teach core French and French immersion? You can use these texts with both groups, so your planning is that much easier!
These French reading comprehension activities are appropriate for beginning Core French students and immersion classes beginning to work on comprehension. These passages are intended for first or second year students.
Grade level will vary based on when students began studying French. See the preview to determine if the grade level is appropriate for your students.
Use these differentiated French reading comprehension activities with your different proficiency levels.
Each reading passage includes:
- Short answer English questions and students can answer in English : These questions will be the easiest for Core French beginners.
- Short answer French questions : This has the same style of questions as the English, however, the questions are in French and students are directed to answer in French. These are best for your more-advanced learners or French immersion classes.
- Multiple choice questions in French : Occasionally, students will locate specific information in the text. These are great for any level, as the questions are a bit different than the short answer versions.
You can choose all one version for a class, but I like to use different versions based on student levels so that differentiation is super-easy! You can always print 2 versions back-to-back and let students choose their own activity.
What do teachers say about these activities?
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “As usual this resource is GREAT! I have used the other reading comprehension packets and love that this one is holidays. It’s a nice way to incorporate the holidays into class. I just used the Halloween reading and can’t wait to use the other ones throughout the school year.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Students love these reading activities. It’s the perfect amount of content without being overwhelming for Core French students.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I love that this resource has differentiation already and I don’t have to recreate them. I use these for my Immersion and Core students as the students levels vary so much through both strands.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I used it with a student having difficulties in reading. This resource helped in increasing reading confidence.”
This resource includes French reading passages for the following holidays:
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year’s
- Valentine’s Day
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Easter
- Earth Day
- Mother’s Day
- National holiday (not country specific)
Includes teacher key.
⚠️These French reading comprehension activities are not editable and will not be provided in an editable format. Thank you for understanding.
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EMMANUELLE R. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTNice work. My French student liked it a lot! Merci beaucoup.
Yasmina R. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat resource thanks!
LISA CIANCAGLINI (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTAwesome resource!
Joanne V. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat stories! Love the differentiated comprehension questions
Melissa Hilton (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat resource!
Karen S. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI LOVE that the questions are differentiated, making it super easy to do the same passage with split classes and still reach everyone. I have used a few, not all of them and have been very satisfied with the quality. My only complaint is that in the Earth Day passage, it says “c’est annee” when really, it should be “cette annee” about halfway through the paragraph. – My students are too low to catch the difference, but it is a change I would like to see!
Deborah S. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGood challenging level for my grade 3s. Thus far we’ve used Christmas, Valentines Day and will be using Easter this week. Am looking forward to using them for Earth Day and Mother’s Day too.
Jvani L. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI regularly use these passages to give my students oral reading practice as well as reading comprehension. I love that questions are tailored to fit different learners. The texts are well structured with a great combination of familiar and new vocabulary for students.
Shelley C. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat resource!
Rose F. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTAnother great reading comprehension set! I love that these tie in different holidays.
Lindsay W. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTLove the themes and how the questions can be in French or English depending on the level.
Sophie P. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTLove using this with my classes. Fairly easy to understand. I love your resources!
Clements’ Classroom (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI love that these reading comprehension activities come with three different versions, so that I can use them across many different grade levels! Thank you.
Robyn T. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTAs always this resource is super! It would be nice if one day it could include more holidays from more cultures/faiths – in the name of inclusivity. Not withstanding that suggestion, I really like these and they save me so much time!
Sabrina F. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTLove the variety of stories and great for differential learning.