Become a more confident language teacher.
![Have a speed cup competition in your language classes; narrate in the target language "Can s/he do it in less than __ seconds? Can s/he do it faster than [other student]"? etc](https://i0.wp.com/comprehensibleclassroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/speed-cup.jpg?fit=690%2C1966&ssl=1)
My kindergartener came home from school on Friday raving about this super cool game that he had learned in P.E. (Why this was a PE lesson, I am not entirely sure.) He couldn’t wait to teach all of us how to play–and all he needed was 12 cups that had holes in the bottom. I grabbed a stack…
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Last night, we had our third meeting of our local PLC (Northern NY & VT – sign up here if you live in the area and want to connect!). Our guiding question was, “Describe a recent lesson in which students were engaged?” I am really inspired by the creativity of the teachers in our group…
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Note to the reader: While this popular party game has long been Mafia, I no longer advocate for calling it by that name. Mafia is a term that refers to crime organizations that are often associated with specific countries and cultures; most notably, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Irish. In the same way that we do not want…
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Note to the reader: This post talks about a popular party game that has long been called “Mafia”, although I no longer advocate for calling it by that name. Mafia is a term that refers to crime organizations that are often associated with specific countries and cultures; most notably, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Irish. In the same…
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Is your class loving to hate The Unfair Game? Then they will love to hate Grudge Ball. How I discovered Grudge Ball If you’ve ever emailed something to me to share on the blog and thought, “Well that was a total waste!”, you just haven’t waited long enough 😉 Allison Robertson in Texas emailed me…
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The Unfair Game® is about to become your new favorite class activity, and your students will love and hate you for it. In any situation that you might be inclined to play a game of Jeopardy, Trashketball, or Grudgeball, instead… make it unfair with The Unfair Game®! The Unfair Game® is designed to be played with…
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Apparently I am on a reading game kick. Like I said a few days ago, I’ve been reading La hija del Sastre by Carrie Toth and Carol Gaab. I am in love with this novel. (I am also in love with La Calaca Alegre…maybe I am just in love with anything that Carrie Toth writes!) THIS…
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I’ve seen a lot of posts recently by teachers that are teaching novels for their classes and feeling like it is not going well. In many ways, teaching a novel as a unit is easy: most publishing companies have provided very complete Teacher’s Guides for their novels, and a teacher simply needs to use the resources…
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Back in the day, I turned the classic children’s song “Juguemos en el bosque” into a game for my students to play and get in repetitions of clothing vocabulary. It was a great filler game and always an option for P.A.T., in addition to a planned part of the lesson for any unit that targeted high frequency structures…
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If you love Flyswatter but have had a hard time justifying its use with your new acquisition mindset, have no fear: Sentence Flyswatter is here! Keith Toda recently shared this excellent game on his blog with attribution to Jason Fritze for the original idea. The game takes a good bit of preparation, but you can…
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