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It’s time for the 2022 Cyber Sale! Monday and Tuesday, you can save up to 25% on ANY resource from The Comprehensible Classroom: lesson plans, curriculum bundles, digital resources… everything! Our entire store is marked down 20% from the current product listing. That means that if a bundle already carries a discount, it will be…
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Note to the reader: This was originally published as a guest post on the CI Peek blog, which has been archived. Some links and references have been updated for this new publication. Of all the different kinds of things that you do with your students—games, conversation, grammar or vocabulary drills, cultural exploration, etc.—what do you…
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The 2022 FIFA World Cup® begins on November 20, and for the first time ever it is hosted by an Arab nation. Since this year’s tournament happening during the school year, Qatar 2022® is the PERFECT content for Spanish class lessons this fall. Check out our World Cup and World Cup-related resources for language classes:…
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Once upon a time, there was a teacher named Paulino. Paulino had a big problem. He knew that he needed to provide his students with independent reading and listening material in Spanish that they could understand, but it was hard to find. One day, he had an idea: he decided to… OPTION 1: Find a…
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One of my favorite ways to introduce very high frequency vocabulary for novice learners is to use pictures. Describing an image to students in the target language while they listen and look while I point to various elements of the picture is an excellent way to provide my students with input that is comprehensible. One…
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Many Spanish teachers will soon begin learning about Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) and its related celebrations throughout América Latina. One hard part about this time of year is navigating conversations with caretakers who aren’t sure that they want their children to participate in lessons about Día de Muertos or any other celebration,…
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Running Dictation is a favorite activity among world language teachers, conceived by Jason Fritze and first taught to me by Michele Whaley. I first shared it on The Comprehensible Classroom blog here in 2011. In this high-energy game, students take turns with teammates to run to a poster, memorize a statement, and race back to…
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A few weeks ago, we began year 3 of homeschooling. What started out of necessity (no internet for virtual school) has become something that I love and that is working really well for our family. Last year, our family joined a local co-op that meets once per week. This year, I am tutoring several classes…
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Map Talk is a content-based, communicative language teaching strategy that our guest author, Benjamin Tinsley, has been using with his classes and empowering other teachers to try in their own instructional contexts. During a Map Talk activity, the class views a map while the teacher describes what is visible and leads a conversation that combines…
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The Somos Flex curriculum is a unique, multi-strand Spanish curriculum that takes care of lesson planning so that you can focus on the most important thing: connecting with your students. Just as the original SOMOS curriculum has given thousands of teachers the confidence to step into a new way of teaching, so has Somos Flex…
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