Don’t you love discovering a new game!? A few days ago, Jenny Robbins shared an AWESOME no-prep activity in the iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching Facebook group. This game can be used in ANY class to provide students with an opportunity to get up and move, accompanied by repeated exposure to content or language. How to play RUN!!…
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Today in history: engage students with a simple critical thinking activity in the target language
I first heard the idea for “Today in History”; or rather, “NOT Today in History” by reading a blog post from Justin Slocum Bailey on the Indwelling Language blog back in 2014. Click here to read the first post: and here to read the second. Recently, I have been looking for new kinds of ‘puzzles’ that…
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Fan N Pick: The possibilities are endless!
Something that I lovetty love love about the ability to connect with other teachers via Ye Grande Ole Internet is the way that ideas expand exponentially as they are kicked back and forth among us. Fan N Pick has long been one of my favorite Kagan Cooperative Learning structures, and I used it quite often…
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Glyphs to express and assess
Can you believe that I didn’t realize what a glyph was until last year? I mean, I had been using them, I just didn’t know what they were called. I kept seeing the word ‘glyph’ on Pinterest and ignoring it because it sounded like something I wouldn’t like. Some kind of a really intense reading…
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Quick assignment for news articles
While I encourage teachers to use the issues of EL MUNDO EN TUS MANOS for free reading material (add them to a class library, let students choose to read them or not, and not complete an assignment after reading them), I realize that there are many reasons that teachers may want to or need to attach an…
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Draw 1-2-3: my new favorite reading comprehension activity!
I recently read about the Draw 1-2-3 activity on the Latin Best Practices blog, and I am obsessed! Bob Patrick shared the idea, and I love that it is very simple and can be used to move students from comprehension to expression with no stress. Here’s how you do it! Step 1: Students interpret a…
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Comprehensible Clouds
Check out my guest post on the CI Peek blog! Follow http://www.cipeek.com to get ideas from CI teachers from around the world every Tuesday!
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READ to extend your class discussion
It’s hard to believe that 2015 is almost over! I am scrambling to finish my 2015 goal of going paperless. Spoiler alert: it’s not going to happen. But I am close! This evening, I stumbled across a reading that I used to extend a class discussion in the first few weeks of my Spanish 2 course—click here…
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Story Tower
Has anyone else been glued to Terry Waltz’s blog lately? It is so easy for me to get on creative rabbit trails and lose the purpose of a lesson or an activity in engaging frills of fluff. As always, Terry calls us “back to the basics” of TPRS®: the skills and strategies that make comprehensible input instruction the most…
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The Unfair Game
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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