Jody reminds us that doing reading classes that are too difficult for the class (instructional reading) brings fewer gains than we may think: If I know there are phrases/words/terms/whatever in the reading that the kids are unlikely “to get” from context, I write parenthetically “in bold type” the meaning in English. Hopefully, that won’t interrupt […]
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A rebar (short for reinforcing bar) is a steel bar used in reinforced concrete structures to hold the concrete together. In that way, three rebar rods in a piece of concrete would be like the three structures we use to hold stories together. Now, we could use cheap rebar – insufficiently repeated structures before moving
Here is a link to some videos I made at East High School about a year ago: http://www.schooltube.com/channel/dpsworldlanguages/ (search “ben slavic’ to get to the videos)
Of all the threads this year that just simply got dropped, Readers Theatre got shrifted the shortest. I mean, got the shortest schrift. Or something. Yet, I hope, at some point, to get all my notes from Jason’s workshop in February (seems like just yesterday) compiled in readable form so that we can come up with a step by step
Bob Patrick made a very accurate statement when he observed that the big mystery of why teachers shun comprehension based instruction so much is that they simply don’t find it interesting: Dear Ben, Some reflections based on recent interaction with other language teachers. The real problem for those of us who are committed to CI is
