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Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS®) is a method for teaching language in which the teacher and students co-create stories. While some teachers prefer to create stories from scratch, many others have found it helpful to have a starting point–a script– and there are many scripts available to language teachers. Every script is an…
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You’ve got a new comprehension-based curriculum, and you’d be 100% sold if it weren’t for that storyasking part. You’ve got a script, but what the heck do you do with it? Many teachers have asked the same question before. Storyasking is an invented word meant to differentiate creating a story from telling a story. If you’ve…
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A teacher posted in the SOMOS Curriculum Collaboration group yesterday that she just can’t get with the original story script that I included with my Madre de Jasón unit plans. This was not a new sentiment–the original story was written by one of my eighth graders, and the premise was definitely weird and perhaps inappropriate…
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For the last several years, I have participated in an annual event at a local college. I have used more or less the same TPRS style lesson plan each year, and you can read through it in detail and download the materials that I use for it here. This year, I had taught two 55 minute…
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One of the first TPRS® stories that I did with my students back in 2010 was “La novia ingrata” (the ungrateful girlfriend), which was a script shared on Ben Slavic’s blog by *I believe* Anne Matava. I ended up purchasing Anne Matava’s Scripts (Volumes 1 and 2, and there is now a Volume 3 available!),…
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Hey amigos, I’ve got a new script for you! And guess what?? It TARGETS -AR imperfect conjugations! Yes, folks…this script here will provide your students with some good ol’ comprehensible, targeted input! Update: click to read more! EL REBELDE CORE VOCABULARY se quejaba de – s/he or I complained about a partir de ese momento –…
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Does anyone else have a Facebook newsfeed that is completely filled with ‘Be like Bill’ graphics? I haven’t generated one for myself, but I have seen lots and lots and LOTS over the past few days. The app that creates them notices a trend in your Facebook activity and turns it into a snarky meme that ends with…
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I have a pile of lesson plans in my office that were all created using resources that other teachers, bloggers, and presenters have shared over the years. My intention is to track down the original creator for each one and ask permission to share what I did with their resources on this blog, but mostly the papers…
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This is the script for Unit 25 of Level 1 of The Somos Curriculum–the English translation is below the Spanish script. I posted a different version of this script in 2011, but I later modified the target structures to better prepare my students to read novels. I’m working on compiling and formatting the rest of the…
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“There is” or “There are” is one of the highest frequency word(s) in any language. In Spanish, the word “hay” is nearly unavoidable as we share stories with our students. Because it is difficult for students to form a mental picture for the word, however, the lack of visualization presents a challenge for getting the…
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