Step 1 - Le chat et la lune kit *2018 Edition

In response to teacher feedback, our new edition kits have many new features... more technology, alignment with the CEFR, fully-described lesson plans.

The Whole-Class Activities Book and associated Blackline Masters or Student Book guide you and your students through implementing the core methodology. You are shown how to accelerate proficiency through a scaffolded, systematic approach so that students are able to engage in productive and interactive language activities.

Whole-Class Activities Book (Teacher’s Guide)

This book includes:

• whole-class activities in five- to ten-minute segments,
• classroom systems,
• entry and leaving routines,
• (Available in new edition kits only) 85-Lesson Overview that illustrates the intended flow of the activities in the Kit how to rotate through entry and leaving routines, how often to model each new activity, how to recycle vocabulary, when to introduce each partner/group activity and how long students typically spend in it and when to introduce the creative work with story - story retelling and extension,
• assessment for learning blackline masters,
• vocabulary lists,
• game cards.

Partner/Group Activities Book (Blackline Masters)

Including the play, vocabulary list, language manipulation activities, simple and more complex questions based on the story, creative writing activities and words to the accompanying songs.

• Student Workbooks are available as an additional purchase.
• Student Digital Workbooks are available for 1:1 classrooms as an additional purchase.

Big Book (In younger aged kits)

For younger classes, shared reading with the Big Book is a very important AIM activity. You may also use the e-reader of this same book, projected from the Portal.

Program Guide

Overview of the Principles, strategies and techniques for successful implementation of the methodology with how it develops authentic proficiency through the levels stated in the CEFR.

Posters and Image Cards

• Image cards of words not gestured
• Hard-copy song and rap posters with lyrics. These also appear as projectable posters on the Portal

AIM Kit Portal (2-year subscription)

A two-year subscription comes with the purchase of the Kit

The Portal contains aspects of the content found in the Guides (videos, songs, e-readers, listening activities). Student digital workbooks available for the Portal as an additional purchase.

• The songs (with instrumental versions)
• Fun classroom raps (with instrumental versions)
• E-reader of the story with highlighted text and audio
• Gestured vocabulary for this kit
• Music videos 
• The play gestured for this kit
• The play performed by students in costume
• An authentic first class with AIM
• Additional Teacher Instructional Videos
• Complimentary access for 32 students 

A Student Book saves a lot of photocopying time and ensures that all student work is kept neatly in one place.

Available in both hard copy and digital format on the Portal for 1:1 classrooms.

Once you have begun to use AIM, you might like to consider resources that will enhance your implementation of AIM:

Hard copy and digital e-readers

Dance videos

Initial and ongoing teacher training is key to the successful implementation of AIM.

We recommend that teachers come to training at least every one to two years, and new ideas are introduced to help teachers move forward with AIM. We have many options for you, both In-Person and Virtual!