September 17, 2012

I’m working on some absolutely kick ass lesson plans that use all the jargon and yet align with CI instruction. When they are done I will publish them here.

In French, “À vous la parole” means it’s your turn to speak. So what I do often in class now is just say that and if anyone wants to speak, like to repeat what I just said, they can do it at that time. Or anytime – they can just say whatever they want. No

A graduate student from the University of Denver is spending time in my class these days. She saw the SSR going on of Houdini that I described in the previous article here. She asked how I hold the kids accountable for that. I told her about the test on Friday and basically how FVR didn’t

The old way of doing 10 minutes of FVR didn’t hold the kids accountable for anything. It is definitely a concept  with a firm foundational footing in Krashen’s research but, as Kevin pointed out to start that thread on FVR a few days ago (and I agree with him), the fact is that the kids,