Books by Barbara Scanes

Learn Spanish with Luis y Sof a 2a Parte Storybook Pack (Years 5-6) contains 14 original, fun stories, written entirely in Spanish, that use repetitive phrases and simple sentences to introduce key vocabulary, grammar, and language structures. These stories continue on from the stories in the first pack for years 3-4.

Learn French with Luc et Sophie is a story-based approach to teaching French at Key Stage 2. It is a two-part scheme, with Part 1 (1e re Partie) aimed at Years 3-4 and Part 2 (2e me Partie) at Years 5-6. Learn French with Luc et Sophie, 1e re Partie will not only provide you with 14 specially written French storybooks, it will also provide you with a wealth of creative teaching ideas to ensure coverage of the Foreign Language Programmes of Study in the September 2014 National Curriculum for England in Years 3 and 4. The scheme is designed with non-specialists in mind and will make implementing the National Curriculum easy. There are 14 units in Learn French with Luc et Sophie, 1e re Partie. Each unit is based around a story featuring a young brother (Luc) and sister (Sophie) and their friends and family. The topic-based stories are written in simple sentences and introduce key vocabulary and language structures. In the Learn French with Luc et Sophie, 1e re Partie Starter Pack, you will find everything you need to get started: 14 specially written French storybooks; a comprehensive teacher's guide; an audio CD containing the stories, acted out by native French speakers, songs, instrumental files for the songs, vocabulary lists and listening exercises; a CD-Rom with pdf versions of all the stories, to enable them to be displayed on an IWB, a pdf of the teacher's book and games, vocabulary files and sentence building activities for use on a Smartboard. The author has 12 years of experience teaching French to 4-13 year olds, and prior to this was a secondary French teacher.