TPRS
June 23, 2011
Flipbook illustration
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This post is part of my project to get rid of old (but useful) papers that have been sitting on my bookshelf. This is another literacy idea I got from a grad school class on teaching literacy to ELLs. Materials: 3 sheets of 8 1/2 by 11 blank paper stapler drawing tools Directions: Place the three […]
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March 31, 2011
If you don’t know what I’m talking about when I say this post is about dismantling myths, go back and read this post. Photo by T. Hart Myths 2 & 3:2. Learning about language is enough (Or, “I don’t have to speak the TL in the classroom”). and its cousin 3. Grammatical terms are actually […]
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December 20, 2010
I got a question via @espanolsrs about how I “teach” songs and whether my students understand what they’re singing. I thought I’d written a post about this before but when I browsed through my song label I didn’t see anything about it. Probably I just thought about it and didn’t actually write it (that happens […]
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October 29, 2010
And the winner is…
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This year I picked up some early childhood Spanish to free up some time for our K-8 teacher to increase his instruction in our grades 6-8. So I teach 3-year-olds through 1st grade. I get 10 minutes per week with 3-year-olds, 15 minutes with 4-year-olds, and 20 minutes with kindergarten and 1st grade. The first […]
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September 23, 2010
Books recommended as ‘easy’
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I found a helpful post on Amazon.com where someone recommends easy novels to read while learning Spanish. I hope to order them and see whether they might be good for Spanish 2, since I’m all about feeding kids authentic rather than learner Spanish from the beginning. One is La Tierra del Fuego, and the other […]
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February 13, 2009
One of my problems with standard curriculum is they can’t provide enough variety in activities focused on one issue. They try, I’ll give the writers credit for that, but there are only so many textbook/workbook exercises you can design to elicit subjunctive for doubt. And really, do we believe that those cheesy textbook videos offer […]
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November 5, 2008
Words we don’t use
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If we’re really teaching kids to be communicative, why do we say things like, “This is subjunctive.” “Put that in past tense.” “Where’s the gerund here?” “Spanish requires the a personal between a verb and a direct object that is a person.” Does anyone ever really talk like that? Do you really care if your […]
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September 30, 2008
Finding stories
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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 […]
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