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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: IFLT15 - Post 2 - Workshops
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Thursday, August 6, 2015. IFLT15 - Post 2 - Workshops. In this post, I'll share information from the sessions that I attended each day. The Opening Session was conducted by Carol Gaab, Kristy Placido, Carrie Toth, and Darcy Pippins. I was helping with registration so I didn't see the first half hour but I was there for the remainder of the session. Carrie Toth and Kristy Placido. Carol Ga...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: February 2015
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Bulletin Board - Why Learn a Second Language. As World Language teachers, part of our responsibility is to educate others about the benefits of learning a second language. I have a Pinterest board. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Sketches with High Frequency Words in the Past Tense. Storytelling doesn't always have to encompass the full story&#...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: June 2015
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Thursday, June 11, 2015. Bulletin Board Celebrating Seniors. It was a way to honor the seniors before they graduated and to showcase to other students in the school the amount of semesters each the seniors were enrolled in Spanish classes. Links to this post. La Silla Especial - Interviewing Students. There is an activity I've done in the past with my students called "La Silla Especial" i...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: La Silla Especial - Interviewing Students
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Thursday, June 11, 2015. La Silla Especial - Interviewing Students. And a poster of the questions and additional information HERE. If you need the questions in French or Japanese, check Bryce's website. June 21, 2015 at 12:13 AM. The photo is a great twist. I just cleared my wall space and will definitely save some next year for this activity. June 25, 2015 at 2:46 PM. 7 Ideas for Teachin...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: April 2015
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Have you heard of VERBA. It is a fun card game created by Kevin Ballestrini, (@kballestrini on Twitter) originally in Latin, but now he is branching out to other languages. By some stroke of luck, Katherine Matheson, (@Katchiringa on Twitter), a Spanish teacher that worked with Kevin to create a Spanish set of VERBA. To read Katherine's blog post on using VERBA.
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: Lesson Plans for when you lose your voice
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Friday, April 24, 2015. Lesson Plans for when you lose your voice. I almost made it through the 2014-15 school year without losing my voice.but when I awoke this morning and started to talk, I knew my luck had run out. In Spanish 2, my original plans included reviewing the class story from yesterday using the structures, oyeron un ruido, se durmieron, and se despertaron. I wrote a sentenc...
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Two rivets for change – En français, SVP!
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En français, SVP! Two rivets for change. July 9, 2015. July 9, 2015. Have you ever heard of the two rivet rule? I hadn’t until recently during a devotional that I had been reading, and I think that the idea is fascinating. Imagine the time it took to change this …. That being said, there are a lot of things that I want to change to become a better teacher. But as last year and a lot of advice from great teachers taught me, you can’t take on everything at once. So this year, with so many changes involving...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: August 2015
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Friday, August 28, 2015. Donkey-Jote: Helping Students to Stay in the Target Language. Donkey-Jote listens for students that don't speak TL. Tation (find more information about her session and others HERE. She mentioned that she uses La Rana de Vergüenza. To encourage her students to stay in the TL. La Rana de Vergüenza. The frog of shame). On their desk as the end of the class period.
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: Picto-Frases - An Activity to use with Fiesta Fatal
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Picto-Frases - An Activity to use with Fiesta Fatal. I recently stumbled across a website named Pictotraductor. I created an activity to use after reading chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal. 1 Read chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal. 2 Showed examples Picto-Frases of other sentences from chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal on a power point. Students said the sentences in Spanish. Next time...
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: July 2015
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Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input. Reading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Takeaways and A-HA Moments from IFLT15 - Post 1 - Observing Teachers. This year was the first time I attended the IFLT (International Forum on Language Teaching) conference. It is a conference for world language teachers that is attended by teachers from the United States and from many different countries throughout the world. Into our classroom to observe as we ...