Dichos ROCK! Teaching idioms in a CI classroom.
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Dichos ROCK! Teaching idioms in a CI classroom.

Click here for a Google Slide Show which I will update as I add dichos throughout the year. This year I decided I would start including "dichos" in Spanish class. Dichos are idioms. They are often SO funny and SO different from English. The students find them hysterical, and they learn SO much new vocabulary…
September 24, 2016Posted inUncategorized
TPRS RULES: Making “Story Day” Count
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TPRS RULES: Making “Story Day” Count

One of my biggest frustrations is when teachers who are considering the big “switch” to using Comprehensible Input in their classrooms instead of text books, decide that they can’t because they are just not capable of silly, goofy, wacky TPRS. Storyasking is ONE piece of the GIANT and CI umbrella. It is NOT the only…
September 13, 2016Posted inUncategorized
Brain Breaks Part 3: Be the PRETZELS of the Teaching World!
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Brain Breaks Part 3: Be the PRETZELS of the Teaching World!

Teaching with Comprehensible Input means that we are automatically teaching in the world’s most “student-centered” classrooms. Often, when a teacher or administrator observes, that is NOT familiar with the TCI methodology, they see what they assume is a lot of teacher talk. They may not hear it for the student-centered, student-driven, compelling comprehensible input that…
September 9, 2016Posted inUncategorized
Movie Talk is the BEST THING EVER! WHY?!
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Movie Talk is the BEST THING EVER! WHY?!

Literally.... Movie Talk is the BEST thing ever in the HISTORY of all EVERDOM!!!.... I know that I say that frequently about many things, and that is because I am a passionate person. However, I must say that I really do feel that Movie Talk tops EVERYTHING.... I have spoken lots about how challenging it…
September 7, 2016Posted inUncategorized