Resources+for+French

= = =French: A Library Resource Pathfinder =

Print Resources in your Library:

 * **French Reference Books** || **French Language Textbooks** || **French Easy Readers** ||
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=**Periodicals **=
 * **French Language Fiction ** || **Bilingual Books (English-French/French-English) ** ||
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 * [[image:corp_logo.gif link="http://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/category/subject/french"]]

**[|Magazines]** || = = French teachers may now stop by the library to sample copies of Scholastic French magazines //Allons-y, Bonjour,// // Ça Va?, //and //Chez Nous, //written for four different levels of French language learners. These magazines include supplementary web resources, student activities, and teacher lesson plans. If you would like the library to purchase full subscriptions to any of these magazines, [|please leave feedback here.] ||

** Media Resources in your Library **

 * **Grammar **

**//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">French Regular IR Verbs. //**//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. // **//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">French Regular RE Verbs. //** //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. //


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">French Culture, History, and Travel in English: **

**//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Monuments of Paris. //** //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. //  **//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Discovering France. //**//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. //

**//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">French Markets. //** //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. //  **//<span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Noel en France. //** //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Huntsville, Texas: Educational Video Network. //

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**E-books available through E-brary**

 * media type="custom" key="12359152" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Your library subscribes to Ebrary, an e-book database allowing access to thousands of electronic books in key subject areas. Click on the logo shown above to search or browse the Ebrary database. Relevant e-books currently accessible through Ebrary are listed below. Click on the titles to view publication details. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**French e-books available through Project Gutenberg**

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:pg-logo.png link="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Click on the image to access. Project Gutenberg makes thousands of free and high quality e-books available to the public. Most of these books are available in digitized format because their copyright has expired in the United States. The user-friendly search interface also allows book browsing by author, title, language, subject, popular downloads, and recent acquisitions. Select "French" under the "Language of Books" category to browse classic and popular literature in French only. Authors whose works are available for download include Gustave Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Guillaume Apollinaire, and many more. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**French e-books available through ManyBooks.net**

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:manybooks.gif link="http://www.manybooks.net/language.php?code=fr"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Click on the image to access. This site provides free e-books searchable by genre, author, title, or language. Some periodicals, short stories, government publications, Harvard classics, and books for young readers are also available. Files are compatible with most e-readers and devices. There are currently 1,462 e-books in the French language available for download on this site. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Children's e-books in French available through the International Children's Digital Library**

 * [[image:ICDL_logo.gif width="101" height="84" link="http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/AdvancedSearchCategory?ilang=English"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Click on the image to access this free full text resource. Select "French" from the language menu to browse children's e-books written only in French. There are currently over fifty titles available in the French language. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection]

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The University of Florida's Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature provides free and open access to over 10,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1600s to the present. These publications also offer a vast array of topics for research in children's literature, including education, upbringing, family roles, gender roles, racial attitudes, religious attitudes, morality, cultural values, literary styles, illustration, and more. Titles can be searched by language, publisher, topic, area, and genre.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Premiáeres aventures de Robinson Crusoe] ||

<span style="color: #464665; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Recommended Web 2.0 Resources:

 * [[image:lingt_logo.png link="http://lingtlanguage.com/"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Named one of the American Library Association's best 25 websites for teaching and learning, this free interactive resource allows teachers to use voice, text, videos, and images to create their own assignments. Students are then able to access and interact with these assignments online, in addition to posting responses. Lingt Classroom was developed specifically for foreign language teaching and learning. Click on the image to access. ||

<span style="color: #464665; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Recommended Websites:
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This is the digital library of the Biblioth <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 120%;">è <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">que Nacionale de France, providing free and open access to digitized books, manuscripts, maps, images, periodicals, sound recordings, and music scores in the original French. Much of the collection concentrates on the 19th century, although the scope of the collection extends fro the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Developed by the University of Texas at Austin's Department of French and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this website contains educational resources for language instructors available free of charge. Teachers are free to copy, distribute, and transmit the content of this site, provided that they do not violate the provisions of the Creative Commons Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 US License. The resources available on this site include classroom demonstration videos, French crossword puzzles, lesson plans, vocabulary preparation templates, study guides, and sample syllabi. || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This site provides free access to the full text of Francophone public domain works. The catalog can be browsed by title or author. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Blaise Pascale, Anatole France, and Gustave Flaubert represent just a few of the authors whose works appear on this site. ||
 * ===<span style="color: #464665; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Gallica Digital Library] ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Français Interactif] ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle] ===