Here is an important article from Robert Patrick to the Latin-Best Practices list. It goes into detail and is an excellent addition to our already strong set of articles in the R and D category: Of all the practices currently developing in the larger practice of Comprehensible Input, Reading and Discussing (R/D) in Latin was […]
Sharon has a kind of complex question: Ben, I’d like to know how you handle new students who transfer into your class in the middle of the semester with no background with TPRS. How do you do it without translating every single thing you are saying? I teach only Spanish 1 and 2, and so
From John: Last week, in an email exchange among our little Latin CI cohort, Bob wrote this: “Breathe. Enjoy what you are doing today. Make sure (Dave also reminded us) that laughter has a chance of happening in every class. It really doesn’t cost much, but the dividend is huge.” I would add, not only
As we continue to grow together as teachers, I am heartened by our continued focus not just on best practices in comprehension based instruction but also on classroom discipline. We have made such great strides on that here over the past year in particular. More and more, I see that the focus on discipline must go hand in
Here is a variation on basic sentence frames, using the same prompts of I went to I saw I received I ate I played that were suggested by Robert in the first of this series of articles suggesting a good way to start back in after a vacation: After collecting the first batch of writing responses, which
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I think that the power of Robert’s idea of sentence frames (see previous two articles here on that topic) is significant, especially to use after a vacation. I didn’t think it would be when I started them on Tuesday, but it is as elegant a form of CI as I have seen, and is highly
