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1 thought on “He Talks Too Much (Matava) – English – Judy Dubois”
Dear Ben,
I am flattered that you thought my kids’ story interesting. What I sent you was the story as we did it in class, which I typed up by memory afterwards, adding Claude Guéant to give the ending a bit more punch and to repeat “Stop it!” one more time.
In the story about Vincent and the orange fish I was working on the structures “goes to” and “wants” for it. I haven’t done too much embedded reading with these kids because we’re just starting out this month. They are seven kids who got failing grades in English in the first trimester and their teacher asked me to take them on. Instead of going to his class, they come to me and we do TPRS. They have the option of returning to his class if they want, knowing that if they stay with me their maximum grade will be 12/20. I am working with four groups like this and so far only two students have asked to go back to the regular class (who were not failing but had been sent to me in the first place to get them out of the teacher’s hair).
I’m really having a ball with them, and the kids are progressing so fast! I think that by volunteering to take on the students that are failing in a traditional class, I’ve convinced some of my colleagues that there is something to TPRS.