Francophone Environment

CinéSchool is a new film program for young audience produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation. It aims to broaden the availability of French and French-speaking cinema for young audiences to schools and students across the U.S with free screenings adapted for various age groups.

More information and registration.

The Prix Albertine Jeunesse, a reader's choice award, invites children between 3 and 11 years of age to choose their favorite book from a selection of works of Francophone youth literature that are available in English translation. The prize seeks to reinforce the practice and love of reading among children.

More information available here. 

Presentation by Sophie Toner, 5th Grade teacher and French Immersion Program Coordinator at Normandale Elementary (MN)

IF Cinéma is an online French film database with over 500 FREE movies reserved exclusively for educators of French. 

Subscribe online: 

https://ifcinema.institutfrancais.com/fr/registration

           Franco-American Academic Exchange 

FA-AX is a tool to find a partner for an exchange program with a French school or university. 

Travel, digital or written exchanges are all possible to organize via FA-AX. 

Any staff member working for or representing a secondary or higher education establishment can sign up, create a profile page and consult the directory of institutions that are looking for a partner. 

As one of the world-renowned attractions in Paris, the Louvre is offering free online resources for children of all ages. These include coloring exercises, videos, picture galleries, and information sheets on the artwork. 

Click on the links below to explore additional educational resources and interactive online activities offered by other French museums. 

Musée d’Orsay

CentrePompidou

Musée du Quai Branly

Hexagramm books specializes in curating top-notch reading materials in Spanish, French and English for schools across the country. Working with over 400 publishers from many different countries, Hexagramm books are hand-picked and re-leveled to balance linguistic differences. French titles are suitable for native speakers from grades 1-3, and non-native speakers through grade 5.

Founded as a partnership of French-and-Creole-speaking Louisiana filmmakers, artists, researchers and entrepreneurs, Télé-Louisiane is the multi-lingual media platform by and for the people of Louisiana, i.e. Louisianans or les Louisianais—whether in the State or in the diaspora.

They produce the animated French-language comic Les Adventures de Boudini et Ses Amis for younger children, and a weekly abbreviated news hour focusing on the key cultural, environmental, and socioeconomic currents of Louisiana’s past and present for Louisiana's 3rd graders. 

Biblonef is a book donation non-profit organization present in France. They donate new storybooks to schools and day cares for children and adolescents to make books available in their own language.

To apply: Soumettre un projet – ONG Biblionef  

CLE International is a publishing house created in 1973, specializing in French as a foreign language (FLE), learned by non-French speakers. More than 100 titles are published each year in a catalog of nearly 1,000 titles distributed in around a hundred countries.

Hachette Français Langue Etrangère (FLE)

Hachette FLE is the first French publisher of Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) with a catalog of more than 900 books that include teaching methods and materials (exercises, readings, grammar, etc.) intended for teaching French to non-French speakers. The books are suitable for all levels and all ages.

Hachette has ample resources geared towards children and tweens, which includes various books and lesson plans. These include Les Petit Loustics, Les Loustics, Supermax, Grenadine, Tatou le Matou, and Sesame. Each of these methods provides insights to engage students of various ages in the education of french language and culture. 

Here are the resources geared towards teenagers, including books and lesson plans for this age range. These include Explore, Adomania, Le Kiosque, Le Mag', Entree en Matiere, Extra!, Bien Joue, and Adosphere. Each of them discuss different methods and techniques to engaging this age range in french education that is specified towards more secondary level schooling.