What is Acquisition Driven Instruction?

Do you use Acquisition Driven Instruction? I began using Acquisition Driven Instruction in 2010; I just didn’t know it as that. At the time, I was teaching almost exclusively with TPRS® (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling), and I would have described myself as a TPRS® teacher. With time, I began using a wide variety…

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There is no substitute for stories.

View this post on Instagram Stories have the power to inspire, to delight, to teach, to challenge. We need stories! Our students need stories. Find ways to bring new stories and new forms of storytelling into your classes!! #spanishteachers #spanishtribe #foreignlanguage A post shared by Martina Bex (@comprehensibleclassroom) on Jan 11, 2018 at 10:57am PST…

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How to write comprehensible texts

Once I moved away from using the textbook as the center of my curriculum, I was free to bring in all kinds of new texts. Popular songs, novels written for language learners, picture books, short non-fiction readings prepared by me, infographics, edited stories written by my students or co-created by the class, and more. By…

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Organization schmorganization

When I first started teaching, all of my files were paper and I organized them in hanging file folders. Eventually, I graduated to beautiful binders filled with page-protected worksheets separated with colorful dividers for each unit. As I began to gather more and more materials from the Internet (blog posts, videos, lesson plans, images, etc.),…

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