storytelling
October 25, 2013
Assessment has a lot of purposes, the least important of which is to give students a number on a report card. Some that come to mind are: educating students and parents on proficiency helping students identify areas that need improvemen keeping parents informed on their child’s progress, responsibility, etc. showing administration what your class is doing […]
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August 15, 2013
I’m so glad I’ve finally gotten around to telling you about this app I absolutely love. Storykit is completely free and developed by the International Children’s Digital Library. It’s an app you can use to read some of the books available through the ICDL, but its much more attractive feature is as a story building app. […]
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July 6, 2013
Here’s a fun video that features an animal (gato), narration in present, and talking about wants and feelings. I don’t know the source of the song, but the video was made by a Spanish student who heard it in his class. Proficiency goals as you show this video: Narration in present Talking about feelings Talking […]
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May 7, 2013
Once upon a time there was a teacher who knew that the textbook just wasn’t fostering proficiency in her students but she didn’t know what to do differently. One day, she attended a short workshop on storytelling that changed her life. Jeffrey the martian penguin and Garfield and Paco the cowboy who bought the horse […]
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March 21, 2013
Cortometraje for narration
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One of our major goals for Spanish 3 is to refine narration. We believe this is a critical function of language. Teenagers do it all the time. They talk about what they did over the weekend, over the summer, yesterday in math class. They tell stories about the amazing shot at the basketball game or […]
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August 12, 2010
First 12 days of Spanish 1
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A couple of posts down Jen asked if I had lessons to go along with the Spanish 1 scope and sequence and vocabulary list. I do! A few, anyway, and at least you can see how I organize and move through Musicuentos. Here are the first 12 days of Spanish 1, in fairly good detail. […]
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