In my ongoing work at AES with Steven Cook, we have been exploring Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis as it may apply to ELA instruction. A summary of that work, a result of about six weeks of inquiry into the nature of language acquisition with Steven, is attached below (“Affective Filter Lowering” attachment). I sent the […]
These are from Angie: Hi Ben! I wanted to share some materials I made this week in case anyone is in need of a quick filler lesson…. It’s for a MovieTalk of this trailer from the movie Frozen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WdC4DaYIeQ And here’s an 18-sentence retell followed by some comprehension/extension questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LACpTVcLFBjxTbwJwVPQnFI9cW12BmQaOwe4v7N_eGk/edit And here’s a presentation of
From John Piazza: There has been a lot of discussion on the list about dealing with 4%ers, but I would like to take the conversation in perhaps a different direction, which may help me in my exceptional and unfortunate situation. Many of my students (and many 4%ers I think) are gifted, technically, clinically, which puts
