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Why?
Mobile-ready Online Editions
The Online Editions are mobile friendly for use on tablet devices, with no additional purchase or separate app to download. Just log in with the same username and password that you use on your computer.
HMH French Vocabulary App
The HMH French Vocabulary app allows students to practice anytime, anywhere with a proven mobile flashcard system. Available for iOS®.
News and Networking
Give your students a direct connection to culture with News and Networking online. We provide the current, age-appropriate articles and videos; you get your evenings and weekends back.
French InterActive Reader
The French InterActive Reader supports the Common Core with selections that are leveled and tied to content areas. The interface provides a rich experience for students—it’s not just a bunch of PDFs!
The Trusted Leader in World Languages
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt World Languages programs continue to provide the unparalleled content and pedagogy you’ve come to expect.
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Interactive Brochure
Explore Discovering French Today! program features through an innovative interactive brochure. Sample videos and technology demonstrations are just a click away.
hmhco.com/DiscoveringFrench-Overview
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We've Got You Covered!
Rest assured that Discovering French Today! addresses language learning requirements for today’s French classroom.
Common Core
Discovering French Today! complies with ACTFL®’s Alignment of the National Standards for Learning Languages with the Common Core State Standards. The French InterActive Reader online supports the Common Core with an emphasis on authentic and informational texts.
21st Century Skills
Students communicate in authentic contexts that empower them to not only learn French, but also to apply it to the world around them. News and Networking online gives students a path to global participation through a monitored space where they can post comments and read other comments from students around the world! Students can even publish their own articles to the site.
International Baccalaureate
IB students succeed through accurate communication and cultural context. Performance Space, through which students complete book activities online, lets students instantly practice and record spoken assignments.
Advanced Placement®
Throughout all levels of the program, solid foundational skills prepare students for success in AP® French. NEW! French Pre-AP® Activities at Level 3 (Rouge) accelerate practice and achievement.
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Scope and Sequence
The Scope and Sequence provides an overview of the concepts to be covered in a given period of time, as well as how those concepts are addressed over the series as a whole. View the Scope and Sequence to see the progression and order of topic introduction.
Scope and Sequence (1.8 MB)
Tables of Contents
Select a Level to review the contents of the program.
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Correlations
See how Discovering French Today! aligns to the ACTFL National Standards.
See how Discovering French Today! aligns with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
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Level 2 © 2013 (154 KB)
Level 3 © 2013 (154 KB)
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Value Packages
Discovering French Today! package options allow you to choose the configuration that’s right for you at a cost that fits your budget, whether you use a combination of print and online instruction or have a fully digital, paperless classroom.
Digital Value Plus
Intended for fully connected classrooms, the digital-only option provides comprehensive online resources for students and teachers—no print components required. Also included is the Student Edition eBook to install on tablet devices for offline use.
Hybrid Value Plus
This option is ideal for today’s print and digital classroom, with the same comprehensive online content as the Digital Value Plus package. In addition, each student receives a print Student Edition.
Hybrid Value Basic
This package features the Online Edition, including online teacher resources. In addition, each student receives a print Student Edition.
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Testimonials
Where has language taken you? Find out where it has taken the World Language educators in this video.
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Features
Discovering French Today! presents language and culture in context, allowing for an authentic language experience for students. This time-tested, proven approach offers remarkable culture, relevant instruction, and real interaction.
Remarkable Culture
Students are introduced to the diversity of the French-speaking world through culture that is presented in context alongside daily instruction. Resources such as News and Networking take students beyond the classroom and get them invested in culture.
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Relevant Instruction
Our proven approach offers instruction in manageable amounts, a wide variety of activities, and progression at a pace that allows all students to achieve. Students drive their own practice through ample opportunities to learn at a self-determined level.
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Real Interaction
Discovering French Today! gives students the opportunity to interact through meaningful communicative activities. The latest interactive technology allows students to monitor their own progress and achieve greater results.
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French Vocabulary Apps
HMH French Vocabulary apps put fun practice at students' fingertips and extend language learning beyond the classroom.
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Remarkable Culture
News and Networking
News and Networking provides access to high-interest articles and culture videos that are updated throughout the school year. From the Tour de France to the latest Daft Punk album, News and Networking provides current information that will get students communicating! Students can add comments that are monitored, submit their own articles for publication on the site, and get help from their Language Coach. Included in the Online Student Edition.
Culture videos
On-location culture videos in the Online Student Edition allow students to learn about French-speaking countries around the world.
Lectures pour tous
The Lectures pour tous reading workbook includes authentic French literature. The "mark-it-up" format helps students solidify reading skills through a hands-on approach.
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Relevant Instruction
French InterActive Reader
The French InterActive Reader is included in the Online Premium Add-on Package and Value Plus packages. The Reader supports the Common Core with a variety of authentic and informational selections at three levels of difficulty.
French @HomeTutor online
Fun digital activities offer three levels of practice and immediate feedback for students.
Activités pour tous
This leveled workbook provides the appropriate level of challenge for all students with vocabulary, grammar, and reading practice at three levels of difficulty.
À votre tour! activities give students a chance to demonstrate what they have learned.
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Real Interaction
Performance Space
Performance Space offers a one-to-one virtual environment where students record their answers for every activity in the textbook and in the French InterActive Reader.
Student/Teacher Dashboards
The Student and Teacher Dashboards are included with the Online Edition. These features provide at-a-glance portfolios of work and saved teacher feedback, and encourage greater student accountability.
Pair and Group Activities
These activities allow students to communicate and exchange information while practicing new structures in both guided and open-ended activities.
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Apps
HMH vocabulary apps put fun practice at students' fingertips and extend language learning beyond the classroom.
HMH French Vocabulary
Practice anytime, anywhere with the HMH French Vocabulary app. This app features a proven flashcard learning system to enhance recall and long-term retention. Created for iPhone®, but also compatible with iPod touch® and iPad®, the HMH French Vocabulary app can be used with any French program.
Features
- 1,500 flashcards organized into themed lists
- Native-speaker pronunciation with SlowSound Technology
- A searchable phrase book
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Progress tracking
Add Your Vocabulary Lesson to the App
Expand vocabulary practice with HMH French Vocabulary Online, powered by Transparent Language®. This resource provides a full library of flashcards and activities to help students learn and practice French.
Features
- Ability to upload teacher-created content with images and audio
- Vocabulary learning activities
- Listening, pronunciation, and conversation practice
- SlowSound Technology
- Includes all three levels for up to 150 students
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Available Digital Formats
HMH eTextbooks
eTextbooks include all of the content from the print textbook and are available across all grade levels and discipline areas. Suitable for most tablets, eTextbooks are portable and easily accessed, with some interactivity depending on the device.
Online Editions
Our interactive Online Editions include all of the content of the print textbook, plus ancillary items and interactive elements, such as video and quizzes. With purchase of Online Student Editions, teachers also get access to online Teacher Resources as well as online Student Resources. Compatible with desktop, laptop, and netbook computers. Online Editions are mobile friendly for leading tablet devices.
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Sample Online
We are pleased to offer a preview of our Online Editions.
Go to my.hrw.com and click Preview, and enter the sample word provided by your Account Executive, brochure, or flyer.
Quick Start Guide
Book Pages
Once online, select a unit, then click the Book Pages tab. Performance Space makes every activity interactive.
Student Resources
Next, select the Student Resources tab. News and Networking will keep them coming back for more! The Performance Space Student Dashboard will keep students accountable.
Teacher Resources
Click the Teacher Resources tab. All you need is under one tab, plus Interactive Whiteboard Activities and the Performance Space Teacher Dashboard.
Downloads
The Downloads tab provides audio and video in downloadable format.
Premium
Now, select the Premium tab. Looking for a way to get students excited about reading? Take a look at the InterActive Reader.
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HMH Professional Services
Our Mission Is to Advance Yours
HMH Professional Services forges student-centered partnerships with schools and districts in the belief that all learners deserve a quality education and the opportunity for lifelong success.
HMH Professional Services includes teachers, leaders, and technologists. Our Professional Learning Consultants become part of your team, working right beside you to build and implement professional learning plans that respect the unique needs and culture of your school or district community. Through program, practice, and technical services, we work collaboratively to unlock the full potential of every student, teacher, and leader.
Comprehensive Services for K–12 Educators
We offer teachers and instructional leaders a full suite of learning and support to deepen their mastery and hone their teaching skills throughout the school year.
Visit us at hmhco.com/professionalservices to learn more.
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