This French Hockey reading comprehension unit will give your students the chance to learn about the sport of ice hockey, entirely in French! Recently updated with the newest 2025 stats for players and goalies.
It is 52 pages and has the following sections:
- 14 pages of intermediate-level reading about the topics of
- the sport, including:
- A winter sport (basic info)
- A Canadian sport? (historical info)
- A sport for everyone (sled/sledge hockey)
- Blind hockey
- Equipment
- Referees
- Professional players
- the Stanley Cup
- the best players of yesterday and today
- Penalties
- Positions
20 pages of full-color 8.5×11 printable vocabulary posters with photos:
helmet, socks, hockey pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, stick, the Stanley Cup, net, puck, tape, leg pads, goalie glove, mask, blocker, skates, gloves, crease, jersey, whistle, referee. All of the words your students would need to know to talk about the sport!
10 pages of printable writing and comprehension activities. Writing activities include prompts for several levels (present tense, past tense, conditional tense). True and false activity, dice game board activity, and even some numbers and math practice activities – one with smaller numbers and one with larger numbers so you can use it for different levels.
I used this resource after winter break as a mini unit to introduce the vocabulary. It is a great time saver.
love that this is something so many students can find interesting. As you observe in the “intro” it’s nice to have items that are interesting to our boys in French. This is great for free reading for my high flyers, and it can also be adapted (esp when we’re in person) to present to the class and scaffolded for all to be able to follow. Thanks for such great research, great info, and a great product.
This was super helpful for our sports unit. It was great to give them some reading to do that stretched them a little but didn’t overwhelm them. The hockey stats were a fun way to review numbers.