I’m just synthesizing some ideas presented in comments earlier today. My goal is not to label what is wrong but find out how we can better serve ELA kids with stories, if we can, and

Tim reports from Arkansas. Anyone using the MovieTalk links should know that he provided many of them so thank you for this report and for all the great MT links, Tim. Hey Ben, I’ve been

Here is the email I sent Larry: Actually Larry I see that four of the people in my PLC – Jeannette, Judy, Laurie and Chris Stolz have already written articles on TPRS that can be read

Of course, the knock on TPRS/ELA has been that there is lack of a common language in an ELA classroom which prevents us from establishing meaning and so confuses the students in multi-language classrooms, since

Why is it a concern that we have found no common ground, no common ELA/TPRS turf in our building at Lincoln High School, which is only a microcosm of a worldwide issue? On the level of research, we

There are many terms used to describe ESL/ELL and EFL instruction. For now let’s just use the acronym ELA – English Language Acquisition –  to make it simple. In my experience, certainly here in Denver

The recent thread about not being an entertainer who is there to make the kids laugh made me think of this skill (#22) from TPRS in a Year! It is called Staying in the Moment: