This set of traditional French finger rhymes and simple poems will help young children become familiar with French sound patterns.

They can also be used with older children to investigate the links between sound and spelling.

Each rhyme will open in a new window.
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You can choose from five different versions of each rhyme - the most complete is 'Son, Texte, Images'.

In each rhyme, début takes you back to the start, joue plays the rhyme and pause stops the sound and animation at any point.