I firmly believe that the best way to acquire new vocabulary is to hear it or read it, in context, in multiple contexts, many times. So, personally, I read in Spanish whenever I have the time. I rarely read fiction in English. This year I’ve been really in to Isabel Allende’s Zorro and Inés del […]
I’ll be posting quite a bit in the days to come about all the things I learned at the fall KWLA conference. One of them is that for someone who’s a fan of TPRS, my students don’t do a lot of the R-reading. So I determined we were going to read more. I’m normally pretty […]
I took the scariest leap a teacher can take. I now teach without a textbook. Well, mostly. I use EMC Publishing’s series En sus marcas (Spanish 1), Listos (2), Ya! (3), which is what my school gave me, as a rough sequencing tool. So, I use it to more or less order what concepts I […]