The Value of Repetition We've all learned that repetition is incredibly important to committing vocabulary terms to long-term memory. This is the big idea behind comprehensible input and many of the strategies used in a TPRS classroom: Kids need to hear us say it over and over again. But what percentage of kids actually hear each and every repetition? How many of them ... Read More about How to pre-teach vocabulary with Quizlet
How to use Duolingo in your world language classroom
Today’s post is about this fantastic free app called Duolingo. It is a wonderful tool for differentiation, especially for your high-achievers who always finish early! What is Duolingo? Duolingo is a free online tool to learn language. It teaches students through a series of mini-lessons and tracks their progress. Mini-lessons include skills across all 4 domains ... Read More about How to use Duolingo in your world language classroom
Brandon Brown quiere un perro final project
This post will talk about how we finished up the book and our final project. I hope you have found these posts helpful and please feel free to share what was successful in your own classrooms! We read chapters 7 and 8 aloud together in class, but students only completed written questions for chapter 8. We did the same thing for chapters 9-10, without answering any written questions. ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro final project
Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapters 4-6
At this point, we began to move more quickly through the book since the kids were comfortable. Chapter 4 I read aloud to students, stopping to ask questions and acting things out for them.They completed the chapter 4 reading questions independently and turned them in for a grade.Homework: Pre-teach yourselves the vocabulary with this Quizlet for chapters 5-6 Chapters 5 & 6 I read ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapters 4-6
Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 3
Reviewing chapter two Today I started by passing back the reading questions for chapter two and asked students to look in their books to find the exact sentence to answer the question ¿Cuándo es el cumpleaños de Brandon? We talked about the importance of close reading and how most people got this one wrong. Then I wrote 5 statements on the board and asked students to translate them on the ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 3
Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 2
Before reading Before reading chapter two, we scanned the chapter and reviewed the idea that Spanish uses dashes (-) to indicate a new speaker instead of quotation marks. We also looked at the words Ji,ji,ji on p. 6 and talked about what this meant and why it was spelled that way. The kids got a real kick out of relating it to texting. During reading I read this chapter ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 2
