I have noticed that with the iPad the class artist sometimes gets too much into drawing and spaces out on the French. In order to fix that, I now ask my artists to not draw the drawings of the story during the creation of the story in class. Instead, they draw them at home. To […]
The Pure Land is a place where quietude in the classroom rules over noise, where pauses occur more often than words, where the timbre and tone of the instructor’s voice are characterized by calmness and kindness, and where the communication with the students is unusually heightened. For this, the language must be made attractive and
These are for the new ROA step 11 (Director’s Cues). Please look over the French and make corrections. This is going up on my wall. avec enthousiasme d’une façon romantique en play-back à droite à gauche en haut en bas en riant en hochant la tête avec pudeur un pied dans l’air la tête an
Here is a link to a place we visited last weekend in Rajasthan. Hundreds of years old, these step wells took five years for 2000 people to dig out to collect precious water. The one we saw was on the spice route to China and went so far down in the ground that it was
Novels for Novice Low/Novice Mid: Las Aventuras de Isabela (Les Aventures d’Isabelle) – Rowan/Gaab Pobre Ana (Pauvre Anne) – Ray Brandon Quiere un Perro (Brandon Brown Veut un Chien) – Gaab Carl Quiere Ir a México – Rowan/Gaab Esperanza – Gaab El Nuevo Houdini (Le Nouvel Houdini) – Gaab Casi Se Muere – Rowan/Ray Patricia
Here are a few little notes from Carol about her books: Link to her novels: http://tinyurl.com/TPRSnovels Link to her home page: tprstorytelling.com Carol explains: My goal is to provide a variety of novels of different genres at each level so that each kid will encounter at least one book that s/he REALLY LOVES. All the
On this one you can see how I have three sliding boards behind me. On the far right are question words and what used to be clutzy posters, now just a panel on a white board of a handsome collection of very common/useful question words and other words like that that I really need for
These are for the acting out of the story as per the new version of ROA (step 11): with gusto romantically quietly comme un Munchkin to the left to the right looking above looking below laughingly sheepishly with one foot off the ground with head forward with head back with arms in the air while
Of course, on block 2 of the two block rotation for this new schedule, we use ROA to start class and right on through to where the Three Steps of TPRS sequence finishes. Reading Option A is such a strong friend in this work of reading a story. And now I’ve added a new step
I found another benefit to the super simple block class schedule – because it keeps the content directly and completely connected to the story for well over 100 minutes through and into two blocks, I am getting a lot more reps on the same material than I did before when I used to use a
